Talk:Robert Polidori

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"Controversy"[edit]

This section needs to be rewritten or removed due to misinformation or content errors. Reason 1: there were no people/dead bodies in the printed or exhibited images "After the Flood". Reason 2: the Katrina image was used by a nonprofit and not commercially. It also doesn't conform to Wikipedia standards for "Controversy" which is by definition means "disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated". And it does not meet Wikipedia's criteria for reliable sources as blogs are not published information sources and many of the referred blog's are no longer up. HeatherBlack (talk) 17:56, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Updated entry"[edit]

Please note I removed the Controversy section, but in "Equipment and Approach" added Alec Soth's blog as a reference for the debate on "unpeopled" images and kept MacCash's blog as a criticism of use of a "Katrinia" image in anti-smoking ad. HeatherBlack (talk) 19:51, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I also removed the Robert Ayers quotes (Robert Ayers, Robert Polidori, ARTINFO) as there was no longer a link. "Due to the nature of the modern camera lens, the analytical sense of his images comes from the pre-Renaissance and Renaissance perspectives. And: “When images are soft, they just remain evocative, or in your imagination. You get a mood, and it remains on the emotional level. The viewer has to put more of him or herself into it. When there is more detail, it’s like that old expression: There’s no fiction stranger than reality. Reality will compose the most extreme paradoxes and contradictions and adjacencies, which can’t be understood." HeatherBlack (talk) 20:51, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]