Up all night, sleep all day…

So I was cleaning my room this morning and listening to the radio, and the song “I’ll Wait” by Van Halen came on.  For some reason when the line ”Are you for real, it’s so hard to tell, from just a magazine.  Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells…” came up, the idea of photographic truth came to mind.  So I ran out of the room to write down that line…and now I’m posting it here! 

Photographic truth- As images produced by the mechanical device of a camera, photographs have the power to project images of the truth and to be seen as unmediated copies of reality.  The myth of photographic truth means that photographs are understood to be evidence of actual people, events, and objects of the past, even though they are relatively easy to manipulate.  The truth value of photography and camera imaging is the subject of ongoing debate, one that has been heightened by the introduction of digital imaging techniques.