A world without photography seems merely impossible for the modern age humans. Photography is seen throughout our everyday lives, from the television, to smartphones, and on our computers it seems impossible to avoid it. But why would we want to? Photography is a vision, a memory, a moment captured in time that makes it possible for humans to share these moments with others. But more times than not, these moments, visions, photographs are altered, manipulated, and distorted to influence, and change the audience’s view. By analyzing the many methods the photographer manipulates, alters, and their distortion of the truth of their works, it is suggested that the concealed sincerity of a photograph is frequently overpassed and corrupted in order to adjust the impressions of public to prompt what the photographer ultimately is trying to prove.
It is not uncommon to look upon a …show more content…
For instance cropping, color changing, photoshopping are all used to revise the photograph. Particularly in Susan Sontag’s , On Photography, she addresses that, “Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked out.” To repeat, this statement becomes more evident as it relates to Time Magazine’s released issue with the infamous O.J. Simpson where his skin color was darkened to make him appear darker than he actually was. Notably in Fig. 2 is the magazine when it was released in 1994, and it can be seen that his skin color was adjusted to make him seem darker. The editors might have done this to give support for the widely perceived racial injustices in America at the time. Likewise the altering of photographs is seen in many appearances and is generally unnoticed thus leading to the world of fabricated
It is not uncommon to look upon a …show more content…
For instance cropping, color changing, photoshopping are all used to revise the photograph. Particularly in Susan Sontag’s , On Photography, she addresses that, “Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked out.” To repeat, this statement becomes more evident as it relates to Time Magazine’s released issue with the infamous O.J. Simpson where his skin color was darkened to make him appear darker than he actually was. Notably in Fig. 2 is the magazine when it was released in 1994, and it can be seen that his skin color was adjusted to make him seem darker. The editors might have done this to give support for the widely perceived racial injustices in America at the time. Likewise the altering of photographs is seen in many appearances and is generally unnoticed thus leading to the world of fabricated