I have been thinking a lot lately about the way photography has changed the way we see things. I know that the age old argument of photography as truth is long since dead, at least for me, but nobody ever bothers to ask what is the truth? Define truth, and then get back to me on that argument. Aside from that, historical images like the Edward Curtis image above have had a profound effect on our assumptions of the West and what defines it. Here is the proud Native American, yet at the same time this image was taken years after we had stolen most of their land and put them on reservations. I know Curtis was simply trying to preserve what little was left, but did he do the Native American a dis-service by showing them in this light?
More on this to come. Much much more.
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