Week 13

Ask anyone and they will say that a photo is capturing the moment, true to what is going on in the environment. Ask a photographer and they will tell you that photography is fiction. Photography in todays time and way back when it was film has always been fiction if that is what the artist chooses. The act of taking the photo is only half of the process. Back when it was film you could create different chemical reactions to develop all kinds of effects. Today we can do the same but with digital apps like photoshop and lightroom.  Photographers are look to create a story and if there are elements in a photo that conflict with the story then it is removed. Photography is the act of capturing the moment but also creating one. The artist can either create the moment by altering the moment of altering the photos. Countries have gone to war over photos but the likelihood of them double checking them is very unlikely due to people being ignorance about the art of photography.  We believe that photos are true because of how the typical process is explained to us, but photography is a whole lot more then that. It is however important to have photos that are true that tell the story as it happened. Like film we have documentaries and we have narrative films, the same concepts are true to photography we have photography that is fiction and we have photo journalism that needs to stay true in order to keep the history of some cultures alive.  Some cultures need it to show what happened and what thing need to stay true and historic. 

This photo is seen as one of the first photographs it is of the empty streets of paris. But the streets were never empty you just don't see the people because it was a long exposure shot. https://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/2_The_Human_Subject/photo1h.htm