Notions and definitions of censorship - photography rendering truth/manipulation of images.
The camera never lies - false.
Photographic images can be manipulated and distorted to reveal to the viewer only what you want to reveal.
Ansel Adams - iconic image, but is it a quality piece of photography?
Adams uses manipulation to alter what the print shows.
Fabricated images, now easier to manipulate images with digital technology, but it was happening when analogue photography was the most prominent.
Robert Capa
Persuasion - 'a deliberate and successful attempt by one person to get another person by appeals to reason...'
Peter Turnley - The Unseen Gulf War
Simulation - falsified and presented as truth.
Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War did not Take Place, 1995, p.40
An-My Le, Small Wars
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