Richard Avedon

            Richard Avedon said, "The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph, it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

I agree with him because photographs capture a moment in time and they always capture it accurately however what is portrayed in that image may not be the truth. When it comes to photographs they are incapable of telling the truth. In portraits people are always smiling because they want to look happy for their picture even if they’re not happy. Everyone tries to be the best version of themselves in front of the camera. It's like an instinct people have. The moment a camera is pointed at you, you are no longer you, you immediately change who you are to fit the camera. Even if you think you are being truthful in an image, an image only captures one moment. Our lives unfold in a million different moments, either big or small, but in order to tell the truth you would have to capture every single moment of your life. So while a picture is accurate in telling the story of a single moment it could never tell the truth because it does not show all of our moments.

The reason I chose the above image is that this is a great example of how a camera can only capture a single moment. This man appears to be in a studio covered in bugs. And the camera is accurate in its depiction of the man, however, outside of that moment he was not in a studio. He was outside with a white backdrop and studio lights. The moment that exists outside of this image tells the whole truth but you would not know that just by looking at this image.

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