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Truth and Photography: The Relationship Essay
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Annie Leibovitz's images of celebrities in costume or a photographer who dresses him or herself up as a different persona in a clearly ironic fashion (such as a woman who might dressed in drag to show the culturally constructed nature of gender) may be examples of more emotionally and intellectually truthful forms of photography than candid snapshots that falsely show a happy family.
Even a journalist taking photographs of a subject can create an inaccurate image, simply by cropping a photograph, or providing or not providing a particular type of caption. A city undergoing difficult economic times can be made to look even worse than it actually is, if the journalist only shows photographs of the worst sections of town, not the areas which are thriving. This has been called 'ruin porn' -- where journalists crop out images of prosperity to create a more convincing visual depiction of blight (Garfield 2009).
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Garfield, Bob. "Ruin porn." On the Media. September 25, 2009. October 10, 2009.…
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Works Cited
Garfield, Bob. "Ruin porn." On the Media. September 25, 2009. October 10, 2009.
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/09/25/06
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