Speaks book on truth and veracity in photojournalism
Texts of philosophers, art historians and psychoanalysts is what's in the book "Ethics, poetic and prosaic essays on documentary photography," coordinated by the artist Ireri lens of the Rock, which was filed on June 20.
During the ceremony at the Museum of Photography Archive, journalist Carlos Payan said that this is a splendid collection, with very important material for understanding the nature of journalistic photography and poor use made of it by many photographers.
The contents of the volume is a rich asset for the study and conceptualization of the picture, while using distorted to reveal that it makes publishers themselves.
"For many years to edit, select the photos that have been published in the newspaper where I worked, and the texts I've read confirms that some of the actions I made in my work were correct, 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 not only in the production of photographic materials, but also textualization and interpretation of that material.
It also refers to the accuracy or truth that contain the images captured "if the problem of truth in the picture or the truth of the image called the epistemological, undoubtedly also called the ethical: ¨ we trust the image?" he said.
He commented that in his journalistic activities, not rarely touched reject photos which clearly lacked veracity.
"One day a photographer took a photo I containing the splendid portrait of an Indian girl who seemed to cling to a barbed wire. I called the author and said, `the posaste not okay, there, so soon there is going what you suggest, and that attitude is unethical, I told him," said Payan.
For its part, the writer Aline Pettersson said that photography is a representation of the object portrayed in a more credible than the painting, which the observer knows how to cope and manage the convention.
"With the picture, things are more complicated. There's a thin line that separates the representation of the object itself, and it is inevitable, as the camera frames and many parts of reality are often avoided, and also in painting, but it has not ever claimed objectivity, and that's more realistic "he said.
He said the image known as the "beautiful woman", the renowned Mexican photographer Nacho Lopez, in which the actress Maty Huitron men walking off the compliment.
"¨ the actress was prepared to make the journey? ¨ could speak of a candid photo or a montage? ¨ It is relevant that act if the result is good? Why, I wonder, would have sought the elusive truth with a capital "he said.
Pettersson said that the book provides answers submitted sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting, and is a cluster of deep reflection and informed.
He asserted that this is a compilation volume that "I shall return to further understand how theses are handled here.
Meanwhile, the photographer Ireri de la Peña and coordinator of the book said that the 12 articles reviewed met from various fields, the two central themes of the book's sense of reality and ethics in documentary photography.
"Every author has chosen the way following their own trades and styles, although we can find common ground in general, but many differences," he said.
He also said he wished that more specialists confluyeran therefore lacked the look of the exact sciences, literature, studying some current perceptions, because speaking of reality in photography is fertile ground for many disciplines.
De la Pena met in the book published by Editorial Siglo XXI texts by authors such as Juan Pablo Aguilar, Alberto Carrillo, Alfredo Cid, Jorge Claro, Erana Angeles, Laura Gonzalez, Diego Lopez, Katya Mandoki, Gabriel Meraz, Juan Antonio Molina, John Mraz and Rebeca Monroy.
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