How the Truth Gets Framed by the Camera

"The devious lie of a snapshot" is a marvelous phrase. It is not the photographer who is devious, but the nature of the snapshot itself, which isolates and freezes action, disconnecting it from context and sequence. Photographs seduce us into believing that they are objective records, but, in fact, all images are interpretations, texts that must be read.

Read the full essay by Louis P. Masur, author of the forthcoming The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America.

(via Arts & Letters Daily)

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