whose truth?

 

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Mark Hobson, at the Landscapist, seems to insist here that one photograph is more true than another photograph. It seems all photographs are true, to a certain extent. I hate to have to resort to the secular humanist's subjecivity, but here it is anyway. Can one photograph be "truer" than another? We determine the degree of truthiness of something by its degree of exclusion - what it leaves out - rather than what it includes, because it obviously cannot include everything. If we are asking a photograph to express the essentail nature of a thing, or a place, or a time, once again there is only the subjective viewpoint of the photographer.

My response to Mark's request for comments is at a later entry, here.