This week, your prompt is to find a image that challenges the idea of Truth and Photography. Because photography shows the world to us so similarly to the way our eye sees it, we tend to believe what we see when we look at photographs, assuming that it tells a whole story. Take a look at this article and the video about Henri Cartier-Bresson to get the wheels turning as you go online and search for your image.
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This article refers to the 'Decisive Moment' which is a term coined by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. He describes the Decisive Moment:
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a
second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise
organization of forms which give that event its proper expression."
Here is a video containing an interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson and his images:
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