http://literarylens.org/2009/02/the-ethics-of-photography/ Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://literarylens.org/2009/02/the-ethics-of-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Kate Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:26:08 +0000 http://looking-in.net/photo/?p=50#comment-842 Great images, great remarks... I take it you didn't feel it necessary to ask the permission of the goat, who comes off rather strangely in this... those eyes... I'm not being whimsical in pointing this out - well, not just whimsical - because I think that one could use that goat to make a point about *some* photographers under some circumstances not troubling to ask their *human* subjects if they can take a picture of them (a drunk lying in a shop doorway, to take an obvious example), because they give them about the same status as your goat. Great images, great remarks… I take it you didn’t feel it necessary to ask the permission of the goat, who comes off rather strangely in this… those eyes… I’m not being whimsical in pointing this out – well, not just whimsical – because I think that one could use that goat to make a point about *some* photographers under some circumstances not troubling to ask their *human* subjects if they can take a picture of them (a drunk lying in a shop doorway, to take an obvious example), because they give them about the same status as your goat.

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