Re: [Rollei] Re: History

[Mark Rabiner <mark >]

>> 
>    Its all very well to read eye witness accounts of
> historical events but they also have errors. Errors of
> observation, of memory, of delibrate censoring of events for
> one reason or another. Also, do not discount the possibility
> that the witness may have misunderstood what he/she was
> witnessing. It is important, I think vital, to go back to
> original sources when they have been quoted by a later
> writer. Sometimes the later writer has gotten it wrong or
> left something important out, or even made it up.
>   Sometimes so-called revisionist history is based on new
> material not available to earlier researchers. Depending on
> the nature of the evidence found it may well change the idea
> of what exactly happened at some past event substantially.
>   Being very interested in history of all sorts myself
> I've learned to be skeptical and to have contempt for poor
> scholarship.
> 
> ---
> Richard Knoppow


So I'm sure the best thing would be to have some Historians in there with
the Real People. A mix.
Maybe some Actors. (vs. real people)
And Photographers.
    or courtroom sketch artists.




Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/

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