woensdag, mei 05, 2004
"I believe that there is no person in the world that must be protected from pictures," the Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado, who has photographed the most immiserated people on Earth, once said. "Everything that happens in the world must be shown."
This is a noble sentiment, but also a silly, or at least impossible, one. "Everything" that happens in the world can never be photographed, if only for practical reasons. And, clearly, there are areas of private life in which vast numbers of people would object to being photographed.
Further, even after photographs are taken, choices as to what is actually shown - by newspaper editors and television producers, museum curators and gallery owners, book publishers and, in the case of war, governments - must always be made. Even Mr. Salgado does not show "everything that happens": Faced with the whole wide world, he chooses what to photograph and then which photographs he wants to show.
Lees verder in de Baltimore Sun.
This is a noble sentiment, but also a silly, or at least impossible, one. "Everything" that happens in the world can never be photographed, if only for practical reasons. And, clearly, there are areas of private life in which vast numbers of people would object to being photographed.
Further, even after photographs are taken, choices as to what is actually shown - by newspaper editors and television producers, museum curators and gallery owners, book publishers and, in the case of war, governments - must always be made. Even Mr. Salgado does not show "everything that happens": Faced with the whole wide world, he chooses what to photograph and then which photographs he wants to show.
Lees verder in de Baltimore Sun.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 14:40
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