Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices

Image caption: Rays on a sphere, projected to an image plane, by Abraham Bosse (1665), with text “To prove one can neither define nor paint as the eye sees.” Article by Aaron Hertzmann. Aaron Hertzmann’s blog – March 17, 2022.

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it” —Ansel Adams

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” —Edgar Degas

Over the years, I’ve heard—and believed—many variants of the ideas that photographs directly portray reality, and painting depicts the artist’s reality. People treat photographs as though they are just like seeing the real thing—as long as there was #nofilter. […]

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