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Jul. 31st, 2006 08:01 pmКакая прелесть. Ну просто прелесть.
Some details on digging the dead Lebanese children from the rubble their home had become some 8 hours after the last Israeli missile landed anywhere near it.
Whatever else, the event in Qana was a human tragedy. But the photographs do not show it honestly. Rather, they have been staged for effect, exploiting the victims in an unwholesome manner. In so doing, they are no longer news photographs - they are propaganda. And, whoever said the camera cannot lie forgot that photographers can and do. Those lies have spread throughout the world by now and will be in this morning's newspapers, accepted as real by the millions who view them.
The profession of photo-journalism thereby is sadly diminished by them, and the trust in those who took them and in those who carried them is misplaced. Truly, we are dealing with loathesome creatures.
Well said.
Update: even more details that point on staging.
Sorry if this is old news for someone.
Some details on digging the dead Lebanese children from the rubble their home had become some 8 hours after the last Israeli missile landed anywhere near it.
Whatever else, the event in Qana was a human tragedy. But the photographs do not show it honestly. Rather, they have been staged for effect, exploiting the victims in an unwholesome manner. In so doing, they are no longer news photographs - they are propaganda. And, whoever said the camera cannot lie forgot that photographers can and do. Those lies have spread throughout the world by now and will be in this morning's newspapers, accepted as real by the millions who view them.
The profession of photo-journalism thereby is sadly diminished by them, and the trust in those who took them and in those who carried them is misplaced. Truly, we are dealing with loathesome creatures.
Well said.
Update: even more details that point on staging.
Sorry if this is old news for someone.
