Elizabeth McCausland

I found this reading very interesting and straight forward about documentary photography. Also made me think about it in a way that I have not thought about it before. It says the camera eye can not lie which is technically true but whats the line when the photographer chooses what to photograph? But it also mentions that it forces you to take in every detail that is in front of you. That also makes sense for documentary photography because you are trying to capture the truth and want people to see the truth. Which also brings up another interesting point is that now a days people expect to see the truth when looking at a photograph compared to a while ago where you were looking for the romance and illusionment in the photo. And another good point made was that it is hard to find factual truths in photographs now a days and that is why many documentary photographs were given to the government. Which makes me think about photo journalism and documentary photographs and which one is more factual than the other and which is more intensional.