this photo from what is thought to be the golden age of documentary photography was everything but documentary and ended up ruining an innocents man life
photography is held to a double standard excepted to be both artistic and documentation of reality I hope to use photos like this and others to prove that photography should stop being constantly labeled as "faked" or "not-truthful" (except in unique situations) because the truth it is presumed that it holds never truly existed.
I shall talk about framing a photograph- staging it and Photoshop i wish to undermine Photoshop as an influence because people have the wrong impression of it and seem to think it is a magic wand that can do anything,when that isn't really true...but i do not want to dismiss the importance of the camera neither in documentation or in artistic expression. only to put it in context and to argue that it should neither be accepted as an undeniable proof nor as a completely fabricated fairy tail, also I want to argue that as an artistic form the quality of photography is not compromised if it is not completely "truthful"
I also want to look into the reason that caused this sudden attack on photography's validity and the public newly found suspicion of it like a child who suddenly became aware that just because the book said its so doesn't mean it is so.
all of these elements will come together i believe to establish what i am trying to argue
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