Title: Photographic Truth
Published by: Bruce Museum
Release Date: 1988

 
Overview

Thought to be the first publication on one of the hottest topics of our time: the ways in which photography can “lie.” In the past a photograph passed for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. Hall-Duncan identifies numerous ways photographs lie: staging photographs, through interpretation and context, and technically manipulating the photograph, such as cut-and-paste, sandwiching or burning negatives, solarization, and crystallizing wet negatives in the refrigerator. This is important—no more than today with the development of artifical intelligence—because photographs exert extraordinary political, moral and persuasive power in our society.