[Leica] What is truth: A photograph was/ is ?

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

Steve Barbour a ?crit :
.... photography always ! reflects a 
point of view, therefore
>> manipulation, by the process of selection...cropping is done  ! that's 
>> the nature of it !  ...
>> ....  something is selected to be included, and other things are 
>> selected to be excluded...
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> Absolument! You are right. I meant manipulation AFTER the picture was 
> taken, to stress the difference with what I said before.
> Tarek

while we focus on "PS etc" as a post 
manipulation...it is all relative, and 
may be minor ...compared to the 
universal manipulation ...at the camera 
click... occurring by the razor of 
cropping...

... the difference being that the 
photographer's final image may be 
perceived as truth... what was cropped 
out, has been lost from our consciousness...

Steve