12/28/2022 0 Comments Body of lies movie fact of fiction![]() ![]() In John Szarkowski’s seminal book, “The Photographer’s Eye,” Robert Capa is referred to as “the great war photographer.” Capa’s most famous picture, “Death of a Loyalist A photographic image might look like actual reality, but gradations of truthĪre measured in the circumstances that led up to the moment the picture was taken. Of course, just because a photograph reflects the world with perceptual accuracy doesn’t mean it is proof of what spontaneously transpires. In real time, moments in history brought to the present? Hine’s chronicle of industrial growth in America the birth of the civil rights movement documented in a picture of Rosa Parks on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Ala. Think of all the famous pictures that serve as both documentation and verification of historic events: Mathew Brady’s photographs of the Civil War Lewis Moment with our own eyes while not actually being there. A photograph comes as close as we get to witnessing an authentic Truth-telling is the promise of a photograph - as if fact itself resides in the optical precision with which photography reflects the way we see the world. For the Lens blog, Philip Gefter, formerly a picture editor at The Times who writes regularly about photography, has adapted an essay from his new book, “ Photography After Frank,” published by the Aperture Foundation. ![]()
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