Photography is an amazing tool that creates replicas of objects, spaces, people, etc… on paper. I really love photography and I am actually a ‘Sunday photographer’. Although I love photography, I also believe that photography is a lie. I believe that it is a lie because a photographer has the power to change the truth and portray it in a different way. Many times, I have seen pictures of spaces and it did not look anything like the real space. The photographers have the power to manipulate and remodel a space, making it their own ideal or how they perceive the world. By remodeling and modifying the space they create a lie but it is arguable that they also create their own architecture. The picture becomes an object of architecture not because it portrays a building but because it the structure of the picture is architectural. And as we may read it in Cervin Robinson’s ‘Architect Transformed’, “a photographer accomplishes this by the pointed way he places objects in his pictures, by the significant relationships he establishes between these objects, and by his evident craftsmanship”.
It is interesting to notice how people react to photographs. A photograph is actually only an image. Some photographs have been seen so many times by people that they actually start believing that it is the real thing, and when they actually see the building for real they find a great disappointment. This usually happens because photography and photographers have the power to lie to people. A photographer can make a building look a lot bigger by simply shooting it from a certain angle, he can also hide the imperfections of the building by not showing them. Photographers have the power to distort the truth and make people believe through their own photographs.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
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