I don’t think many people would go so far as to consider photographs “the linchpin of social consensus” but even so, many of the assumptions we tend to make about them have always been false ones. I’ve seen things in real life that later featured on the front page of newspapers. The difference can be more stark than is often appreciated. Like any powerful medium of expression they can capture truth or they can obscure it.
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I don’t think many people would go so far as to consider photographs “the linchpin of social consensus” but even so, many of the assumptions we tend to make about them have always been false ones. I’ve seen things in real life that later featured on the front page of newspapers. The difference can be more stark than is often appreciated. Like any powerful medium of expression they can capture truth or they can obscure it.