In photographs we trust

Thomas Demand Presidency II

Consider: we trust photographs as pictures of reality but in reality they deceive us through pictures photographs can be easily accessible and simple to understand but at the same time they can have a complex 'text' or inferred reading we know how to appreciate the aesthetic of a photograph but only through 'borrowed' concepts from other non-photographic art forms A digital photographer "creates" using a independent mechanical/electrical process that does not (necessarily) need the photographer to create anything - merely press the shutter release These more…