Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of taste and conscience. The immensely gifted members of the Farm Security Administration photographic project of the late 1930s...would take dozens of frontal pictures of one of their sharecropper subjects until satisfied that they had gotten just the right look on film--that precise expression on the subject's face that supported their own notions about poverty, light, dignity, texture, exploitation, and geometry.
On Photography, Susan Sontag
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