No guys in this cursory study. Though of course they get photoshopped as well.
I'd like to see them examine food presentation though. I bet there is a lot of manipulation there.
I'd like to see them examine food presentation though. I bet there is a lot of manipulation there.
My tastes have swung backwards, to analog cameras that are older than I am, and images that go from a film negative or positive into a print with little to no manipulation.
"...However, the problem with photography’s deceit — showing us the world as seen by someone’s vision (let’s call it vision) — also creates a problem, especially when we buy into it too much: when we insist on the deceit being overwhelming, crowding out our other, critical facilities."
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"What this means is that the belief what pictures show also includes an element of how they do it. As viewers, we want to be deceived and we don’t want to be told about it. As photographers, we deceive ourselves and we don’t want to be told about that."