John Dvorak has an article on “Photography and the Truth” today. This got me thinking. Before there was photography, no one considered pictures as accurate representations of reality. Even a painting of a person was accepted as an artist’s interpretation of that person.
Thanks to living in a world of photographs, we presume that pictures somehow represent “reality” now. Here’s the clincher: we also assume that pictures done before photography also represent reality. This leads people to think that our ancestors must have been incredibly delusional to think some of what they painted was real. Frankly, I think those ancestors would be amazed at how easily we accept photographs as “real” today, and using a program like Photoshop to “change” a picture would probably seem perfectly reasonable to them.
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