Digital photography too easily allows “What you see is what wasn’t there,” believes Philip Jones Griffiths:
The real problem with digital is there is no reason to believe photographs any more. In a sense, you could easily postulate and say photography was a shooting star of the twentieth century. It came and went in 100 years . . . faking pictures is just so easy. Let’s hope that there will be a reaction to that. And we will go back to taking real pictures on real film and people will say, yes, this is real, this really happened. (Quoted on page 66 of After Photography, by Fred Ritchin. W. W. Norton & Co. 2009.)
For a brief biography of Philip Jones Griffiths, click here. For a selection of his photographs, click here. For a brief biography of Fred Ritchin, click here.
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