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I recall reading a lot of fantastic essays on the “reality” of photos when I studied photography at A Level. I’ll have to see if I can dig stuff up, but I recal
by iamacyborg 5y ago
I recall reading a lot of fantastic essays on the “reality” of photos when I studied photography at A Level. I’ll have to see if I can dig stuff up, but I recall there being a lot of controversy surrounding posing of bodies in early war photography.
- roywiggins 5y agoProbably the most famous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier
- iamacyborg 5y agoThat one definitely but I was thinking of Alexander Gardner’s Home of a rebel sharpshooter.