Nonstop
imagery (television, streaming video, movies) is our surround, but when it
comes to remembering, the photograph has the deeper bite.
New
demands are made on reality in the era of cameras. The real thing may not be fearsome
enough, and therefore needs to be enhanced; or reenacted more convincingly.
In
fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life
supplies for regarding—at a distance, through the medium of photography—other
people's pain
The
ubiquity of those photographs, and those horrors, cannot help but nourish
belief in the inevitability of tragedy in the benighted or backward—that is,
poor—parts of the world.
The
dual powers of photography—to generate documents and to create works of visual
art—have produced some remarkable exaggerations about what photographers ought
or ought not to do
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