{"id":4975,"date":"2009-07-21T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2009-07-21T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:07:10","slug":"photographic-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/photographic-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographic fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Blake wrote:<\/p>\n

This life\u2019s dim windows of the soul
\nDistorts the Heavens from pole to pole,
\nAnd leads you to believe a lie
\nWhen you see with, not through the eye.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Malcolm Muggeridge much later:<\/p>\n

The first time that I ever went on a colour television filming expedition, I noticed that a member of the camera crew was carrying something rolled up under his arm. When I asked him what it was, he told me it was the plastic grass, real grass not being green enough for living colour. \u2018Keep the witch hazel handy,\u2019 a floor manager was instructed during the filming of a Nixon commercial during the 1972 Presidential election, \u2018we can\u2019t do the sincerity bit if he\u2019s sweating.\u2019 Cinema verite<\/em> or cinema falsite<\/em>? Not only can<\/em> the camera lie, it always lies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that this revelation didn\u2019t prevent Muggeridge appearing in front of the purveyor of lies at every paying opportunity.<\/p>\n

So it comes as no surprise whatsoever to discover that an iconic war photograph is a fake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If, as Muggeridge noticed, the camera always lies, what can we say about the digital photograph, compared to which silver halide is a model of veracity? Not much, perhaps, since we expect a digital photograph to be substantively bogus. That does not mean it can’t be a thing of beauty:<\/p>\n

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