Capa’s ‘falling soldier’ – debate continues

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The debate is recindled again as a Spanish academic gives new evidence to suggest Capa's photo is faked. Guardian article here ...and the debate continues. Much the same as with Dorethea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'. I find it interesting how history can focus wider debates on to a finite point in history. As if our whole trust in the reality of the photograph resides on whether Capa's photo is real or not. Although its probably more of an investigation into the photographers scruples than the nature of the photograph. There is no doubting in my mind that Capa was a more…

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…