camera and deception.

camera the camera can be very deceptive. We sometimes cannot depend on photography as proof or sources. Especially with photoshop etc. But even without those do we truly know what we are looking at when look at photos. we are seeing what the photographer wants us to see.

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thornton pickard An excellent example of an artist / photographer is James Casebere.

his work is NOT archictecture and even at that the architecture is not the finished product! what you are looking at is actually a mini model of architecture and the final pieces are the huge photographs he takes of them. I tried this for myself its crap. but adleast i tried!

here is another set.. but this one is a work in progress: