Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
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 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.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
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.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.