The uneasy line between art and document

Here’s a nice post on CBS news about a manipulated photograph.  I find the move to be a significant and compelling commitment to both authorial expression and event-based documentation:

Jamie and Kevin captured New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham grabbing a shot of a runway model at Fashion Week.

“It’s something I never thought about before doing this: What does it say about the scene, about the guy picking up a camera, because he’s the only one moving – he and the model aren’t still. I think it communicates things about his individual take on the world. He’s not concerned with what he SHOULD be shooting, he’s not concerned about, ‘Do I need a big camera, big flash, lot of equipment?’

“There’s ways to manipulate the photo and the movement to communicate these things. Often times things will come out of the footage in response to what the person does.”

Credit: cinemagraphs.com

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