“Robert Frank claimed ‘realism is not enough-there has to be vision’: and Lewis Hine was quite blunt when he warned an audience of social workers in 1909 that although the ‘average person believes implicitly that the photograph cannot falsify,… you and I know this unbounded faith in the integrity of the photograph is often rudely shaken, for, while photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. It becomes necessary, then, in our revelation of the truth, to see to it that the camera we depend upon contracts no bad habits.’” James. American Photography and the American Dream. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991.(20)

 

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