> Yes Judy, there is "objectivity"; although not in the sense as you have
> portrayed. The challenge is not to translate reality to a piece of
> paper. The challenge is to have the image on the piece of paper convey
> the same message of that reality; and that this be done with a minimum
> (idealy none) of manipulation or editorializing by the photographer, but
> executed with the experience and ability of the photographer, so that
> the viewer can understand the message of the reality.
I don't agree with this one. Reality is not itself objective, and any
sense of an objective recording of reality is delusional.
I'm reminded of Garry Winogrand constantly repeating "I photograph
things to see what they look like as photographs" to which A.D. Coleman
responded some years later in an essay "no, that shows us what they look
like as photographs *by Garry Winogrand*.
---Carl