On 2013-01-02 05:44, John Palcewski wrote:
Here's the beginning a long meditation on the question: "Is documentary-style photography dead?" which appeared recently in the LA Times.
Photography's reputation for being "truth" was always much exaggerated. What you did and didn't photograph, angles, perspective (what you included in the background), and so forth, were already tremendously powerful tools. What was in a photograph might be truth, but quite likely not the whole truth.
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