“A photograph is the meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photographs are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.” - John Berger
From “Another Way of Telling” by John Berger and Jean Mohr.
Highly recommended.1
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Photo by me, quotation by John Berger.
Nothing has the impact of film, of a photograph, the primary, least indisputable witness to an event.
Not a neurologist but must believe the visual goes directly into the brain
Propagandists and bad actors know this, and have the tools to pervert images (in a literal sense). We are victims of our own technology.