All photographs are accurate. none of them is the truth...? what does this quote mean pls help?

Question

All photographs are accurate. none of them is the truth...? what does this quote mean pls help?

Answer 1

Photographs are accurate renditions of what is projected onto the plane of the film ( or the sensor of a digital camera ). However, an artist penetrates deeper into the subject matter to convey what the meaning is to her and to the viewer. That is the "truth" that is spoken of.

Great photographers ARE artists. For example, Karsh ( of Ottawa ) was a great portrait photographers and his photographs of such people as Albert Einstein were famous for conveying the true personalities of his subjects. Nature photographers like Ansel Adams conveyed the beauty and spirituality of the places in the American West that he captured in works that can only be called "art".  

Answer 2

Maybe the photographs are of the same series such as different parts of a mountain scene, but none of them project the whole mountain scene. Therefore, all the photos individually do not give the whole truth.

Looking at a crime scene, you could come up with any number of theories as to what happens in the photographs and they would correspond accordingly to each photo, but your theories might not have been carried out, there could be some other scenario that you neglected to think of that had actually happened.

Figuratively it means you can't judge a book by its cover.

Answer 3

well if somethings accurate, it means perfect.

but not everything is perfect and things have mistakes and people make mistakes, but by looking at photographs you wouldn't know it.

in a way, it kinda means - looks can be decieving

Answer 4

A photograph is a collection of light from a given moment in time.  It shows you exactly what was visible from a given perspective at a given moment in time.  The truth relies upon observing something over time. I can see a photo of someone in the air.  Did they jump or are they falling? The truth can not be determined by looking at the picture

Answer 5

It might (might!) mean, that in a way photographs are true in one way we see them. Like on the outside. On the other hand we don't really know what is going on so it may not be true. Hope I helped!

Answer 6

a photograph is an image taken out of time, a glimpse of a precise moment that will never happen again. no matter what the photo is of, it is accurate in that it reveals how things were.

however, a photo cannot depict the truth of a moment. in order to know the truth of a moment captured in a photograph, one must be involved in the capturing of the image. looks are deceiving, after all.

Answer 7

in what context is this taken from?

otherwise i would guess that the quote means that a photograph is just one split second of time represented on paper. it's not the whole story, it's not the whole action that was taking place. it's simply one small element of the whole. which by default can't make it right or wrong, true or false.