A photographic imagination

Amid Shadows of War, a Cultural Decadence
NY Times

Regardless of style, the Verists were not objective. They were prejudiced and bitter, and more interested in peeling away surfaces than in depicting them. The main question seems to have been: How many ways can the truth be twisted and be made truer still? Nearly every artist has a different answer, and often more than one.

Same could be said of political blogs these days.

However closer to home, this twisting of truth particularly in the manipulation of the photographs I work on, toying with the veracity of the documentary nature they arrive with is one of the more fufulling aspects of the process. How far can the image go in losing specificity and turn into something different and revealing something other than what was orignally captured. In these contradictions you can find a truth. Prejudiced and bitter, hmm, only before my first coffee.