Undeceiving the World
Can a staged photograph tell the truth?
Franklin, Stuart http://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/undeceiving-the-world/
Publisher: Harper's
Date Written: 01/03/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
A historical look at how photographs have been staged and manipulated, and the meaning of "truth" as it relates to photo-journalism and documentary film making.
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Staging — the practice of deliberately arranging a scene -- has coexisted with documentary photography from the beginning. When Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre published a seminal tract on a method for fixing images onto a shiny piece of silver-coated copper, in 1839, he also described the relatively recent art of the diorama. Photography and staging, you might say, were launched into the world as twins.
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