Imagining Reality

A good friend lent me a book to read called, “Imagining Reality.”

It is a history of documentary filmmaking and has been very enlightening to read. I see many parallels to our current times. I plan to share more of my thoughts at a later point, but enjoy this excerpt for now...

“A modern battlefield really shows little or nothing, and the real scenes are diametrically opposed to the usual ‘posed battle’ scenes with which our public has been regaled so much. In real life a man who has been hit by a bullet does not throw up his hands and rifle and then fall in a theatrical fashion and roll a few times over. When he lies in the trenches and is hit, he barely lurches a few inches forward or quietly turns over on his side. The real picture is not as dramatic as the fake picture, but I believe the realization of the grimness of the genuine will grip the beholder far more than the fake, just as you can see far better animal pictures that were taken in the zoo or in animal parks than mine taken in the wilderness, but the public appreciated the difference...” - Captain F.E. Kleinschmidt, August 1914

Here is my latest from “the wilderness”...