Joerg Colberg over on
Conscientious has a thought provoking piece on how photographers’ rights seem to be trumping basic human decency — with the blessing of our culture.
I am not going to actually show the photograph I am going
to write about. [It] shows a young woman in the center of the frame who
is surrounded by six male figures [...] five are photographers. They’re
photographers we call paparazzi. The young woman – actress Sienna
Miller – is caught “mid-action”: Her posture looks defensive, her arms
are raised, in particular her right one, as if to defend herself from
the paparazzo at the left edge of the frame whose gaze is centered on
her [...] The activities that produce photographs like the one I am
talking about here are widely accepted.
If you did not know anything about paparazzi your impression might be
very different: A young woman surrounded by young men, in a very
defensive posture, looking terrified – that’s imagery we usually
attribute to assault, to the presence of physical or emotional violence
[...] Does our right to make or take any photograph really trump ?
Meditations on Photographs: A Terrified Young Woman Surrounded by A Group of Male Photographers by an unknown paparazzo [Conscientious]
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