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Contemporary Photography: Assignment 1

The most important issue raised in this text was what is considered acceptable in terms of documentary photography. For example, the manipulation of an image to tell a story, or to support a story, that was never actually in the photograph. Within photojournalism, telling the whole truth is very important and people have lost their jobs in the past over photo manipulation. With the advances of photoshop it is very easy to change an image, however, you then start to cause your audience to question the truth. Manipulation can also change the way a viewer responds to an event/article. A supporting argument for this would be the cover of TIME magazine with a picture of O.J. Simpson. His face has been made a lot darker than the original, and in American society, darker skinned people are often associated with serious crimes, more so than white people.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19940627,00.html

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a foggy memory kept preciously

My intention with this response was to create something that was a very sentimental item to somebody, like a lot of good memories are.

I have a friend who carries a photograph of her mother who passed away from cancer everywhere she goes and this was what i was drawing inspiration from in my response to the poem Memories.

I wrapped the image in tule and the sewed it on like it had been kept as something precious, and then i cut the tule open as if the person the memory belonged to couldn't stand not being able to have the memory put away safely so they ripped it open to have that memory back with them.

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