PICTURE ALTERATION

Picture Alteration



Picture Alteration

What, then, constitutes the honest representation of a photographic image?

Previously it was the common perception which people have that whatever the photograph is showing is the same as it exists in reality. People had the perception that whatever a photograph carries is the exact imprint of the object which is placed in front of the camera. Early photography theorists commonly used the noun “verisimilitude” or the adjective “verisimilar” to indicate a photographic image's appearance of being “truthful,” or “real”. In fact, it was a common belief that a sophisticated cliché, like photograph can never lie. The proverb ...