Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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