People who are more serious and
thoughtful than I am debate whether a photograph can truly be true. Some
say a photo is true if it just depicts what was there when it was made, if it
is just a "light drawing" -- the literal translation of the Japanese
word for photograph) of what exist?. Others say that a photograph by its
very nature does not depict any singular truth, but instead is unavoidably a
version, a story about the truth, which is dependent on the angle, the
aperture, the shutter speed, and all the other choices, conscious or not, that
the photographer (or editor) has made.
I don't know whether a photograph
can be the truth. But I do know that a photograph can say something that
is true. This
one, which I took in a playful spirit, now seems to me to say the most
important true thing of all.
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