I always thought photography lied. Lenses distort reality, shutter speeds mask the passage of time, and so many people can’t figure out what ‘level’ is that it makes looking at many landscapes makes them appear infuriatingly incorrect.
Jan Faul
On Jan 2, 2013, at 4:03 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: 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. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
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