I'm puzzled by the fact that concern for "photographic truth" seems to be on the increase. I'm tired of hearing media reports that claim to be "shocked, shocked" at "faked" images. I'm also tired of reading that an exhibition "examines a contemporary notion of photographic reality," as a review in this month's Aperture Magazine claims.
Is it that the folks who write about such things do so in an overly-complicated manner? Let me be clear, then:
There is no photographic truth. There never has been. It does not matter. Let it go. Now go make some pictures.
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