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| Elena Franzese |
In this photograph, there is a minor trick here on the viewer's perception of documentary fact (the documentation of CD album covers). As one of the criteria suggests for this assignment, one of these covers is a fake - i.e. one I made up for a compilation CD. My theory/concept is: when a single false bit of information is inserted within a larger chunk of data, it is easy to overlook, especially when someone is not expecting to find anything wrong with what they are seeing. I also see this as a comment on how much attention people will truly give to an image, and whether or not they are making a quick assumption, or if they are actually noticing anything out of place. In this case, a fraction [of the image] cannot sum up the whole (as one big factual thing), yet many would make that assumption.
An interesting idea, though I'm not sure how well it works as a photograph. Seems as though it may be more interesting as a physical piece. I'm not sure we really make assumptions about factual information about photographs anymore...seems as though it's widely accepted that the photograph can indeed and often does present fictions.
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