Sunday, December 9, 2007

Truth and Representation

Truth is fact or reality. A photograph can show the truth but be altered to show a false reality. You can’t always trust what you see in a picture. Pictures can lie due to all the software created in order to alter photos. That software can be used to make a celebrity thinner then they actually are or make them look fatter then they actually are. Since society loves gossip and juicy stories photography has been tainted to the point where you can’t believe half of what you see in tabloids and even newspapers. But photographs taken by CSI investigators is totally different because they show the facts to help solve a case and are not altered in any way. They document the scene of a crime using true pictures that are untouched by photography altering software. Unlike a paparazzi who can go on their computer and digital edit a photograph to make it more controversial and buzz worthy.

Photo Ethic:
I think that photographers especially paparazzi have the moral obligations to keep photographs that are going to be used to exploit someone not be digitally altered from the true original picture because it is horrible to make a profit off of a false photograph.

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