"Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? " Topic
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Tango01 | 02 Aug 2015 3:31 p.m. PST |
"…Not surprisingly many of the canonical images of early war photography turn out to have been staged, or to have had their subjects tampered with. After reaching the much shelled valley approaching Sebastopol in his horse-drawn darkroom, [Roger] Fenton made two exposures from the same tripod position: in the first version of the celebrated photo he was to call "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"(despite the title, it was not across this landscape, that the Light Brigade made its doomed charge), the cannonballs are thick on the ground to the left of the road, but before taking the second picture – the one that is always reproduced – he oversaw the scattering of the cannonballs on the road itself. There are no photographs – only references to photographs – in Sontag's book.[1] I will make this a little easier for the reader. Here are the two Fenton photographs taken "from the same tripod position." I gave them the names – "OFF" and "ON" – the-photograph-with-cannonballs-off-the-road and the-photograph-with-cannonballs-on-the-road…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
GarrisonMiniatures | 03 Aug 2015 2:31 a.m. PST |
Creationist: chicken Evolutionist: egg I would assume God would create an adult rather than an egg if the Creationist point is correct. For an Evolutionist, at some point the chicken becomes a chicken, but the parents weren't. Hence, the egg comes first. |
GarrisonMiniatures | 03 Aug 2015 2:40 a.m. PST |
Though not sure how it applies to cannonballs or when a picture was taken or was it staged… |
RavenscraftCybernetics | 03 Aug 2015 8:34 a.m. PST |
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jdpintex | 03 Aug 2015 3:21 p.m. PST |
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Mallen | 05 Aug 2015 12:33 p.m. PST |
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