Book speaks truth and accuracy in journalistic photography
Texts of philosophers, art historians and psychoanalysts is what's in the book "Ethics, prosaic and poetic essays on documentary photography," coordinated by the artist of the lens Ireri de la Peña, which was submitted on June 20.
During the ceremony at the Museum of Photography Archive, journalist Carlos Payan said this is a splendid collection, material very important to understand the nature of journalistic photography and misuse of it by many photographers.
The volume is very rich for the study and understanding of photography, while enabling the use warn that it misrepresented themselves do publishers.
"For many years to edit, select the photographs to be published in the newspapers where he worked, and the texts that I read confirmed that some of the actions that were made in my job right, led, perhaps, only by my intuition or common sense and they have to do with ethics, "he said.
He stressed that the ethics of transparency is not only in the production of photographic material, but also the textualización and interpretation of such material.
It also refers to the accuracy or truth containing imagery, "if the issue of truth in the image or the truth of the image called the epistemological, undoubtedly also called ethics: I can rely on the picture?" he said.
He commented that in his journalistic activity, it was often reject photos which clearly lacked veracity.
"One day a photographer took me a beautiful picture which contained a portrait of an Indian girl who seemed to cling to a barbed wire fence. I called the author and said, `the posaste not be valid, there will soon not going to suggest what you want, and that attitude is unethical, I told him," said Payan.
For its part, the writer Aline Pettersson said that photography is the representation of the object portrayed in a more credible than the painting, which the observer knows how to face and manage such a convention.
"With the picture, things are more complicated. There is a thin line that separates the representation of the object itself, and it is inevitable, as the camera framed and many parts of reality is ignored, but also in paint, but it did not intend to ever objectivity, and that is more realistic "he said.
Commented the image known as the "beautiful woman", the renowned Mexican photographer Nacho Lopez, in which the actress Maty Huitrón walk against the men who piropean.
"I was prepared for the actress to make the trip? How can we speak of a candid photo or a montage? ¨ Is it relevant if the result is good? Why, I wonder, would find the elusive truth with a capital, "he said.
Pettersson said that the book provides answers submitted sometimes overlapping, others differ, and it is a cluster of deep reflection and informed.
He asserted that this is a compilation volume that "I must return to understand how further the thesis that this is handled."
Meanwhile, the photographer Ireri de la Peña and coordinator of the book said that the meeting reviewed 12 articles, from various fields, the two central themes of the book sense of reality and ethics in documentary photography.
"Each author chose the path at their own offices and styles, although we can find points of agreement in general, but many differences," he said.
He also said that he would have liked to see more specialists confluyeran therefore lacked the look of the sciences, literature, some who study the current perception, because talking about the reality in photography is fertile ground for many disciplines.
De la Pena collected in the book published by Editorial Siglo XXI texts by authors such as Juan Pablo Aguilar, Alberto Carrillo, Alfredo Cid, Jorge Claro, Eraña Angeles, Laura Gonzalez, Diego Lizarazo, Katya Mandoki, Gabriel Meraz, Juan Antonio Molina, John Mraz and Rebeca Monroy.
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