[1928 - 2020] British-born journalist and writer
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Pictures on a Page : Photojournalism and Picture Editing by Harold Evans
ISBN: 0534008127 This book is available from Amazon
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?
Each photograph is only a small, flat series of tones from black to white. Its depth is an illusion, its animation symbolic. Yet it has this mysterious richness transcending all its limitations so that our impressions of major and complex events may be permanently fashioned by a single news photograph.
