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Truth claim (photography)

Index Truth claim (photography)

Truth claim, in photography, is a term Tom Gunning uses to describe the prevalent belief that traditional photographs accurately depict reality. [1]

27 relations: Bureaucracy, Camera Lucida (book), Charles Sanders Peirce, Computer animation, Denis McQuail, Digital camera, Digital photography, Faith, Genre, Human subject research, Indexicality, Lev Manovich, Negative (photography), Neil Postman, News conference, On Photography, Paul Levinson, Photo manipulation, Photorealism, Roland Barthes, Sense, Susan Sontag, Technopoly, Through-the-lens metering, Tom Gunning, Travel, Vintage Books.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group.

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Camera Lucida (book)

Camera Lucida (La chambre claire) is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes.

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce ("purse"; 10 September 1839 – 19 April 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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Computer animation

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images.

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Denis McQuail

Denis McQuail (12 April 1935, London – 25 June 2017)"Prof.

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Digital camera

A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Digital photography

Digital photography is a form of photography that uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to capture images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.

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Faith

In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in a particular system of religious belief, within which faith may equate to confidence based on some perceived degree of warrant, in contrast to the general sense of faith being a belief without evidence.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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Human subject research

Human subject research is systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional (a "trial") or observational (no "test article") and involves human beings as research subjects.

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Indexicality

In semiotics, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy of language, indexicality is the phenomenon of a sign pointing to (or indexing) some object in the context in which it occurs.

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Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich (born 1960) is an author of books on new media theory, professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, U.S. and visiting professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

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Negative (photography)

In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.

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Neil Postman

Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known for his seventeen books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), ''Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology'' (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1994) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995).

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News conference

A news conference or press conference is a media event in which newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions.

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On Photography

On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag.

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Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson (born March 25, 1947) is an American writer and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City.

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Photo manipulation

Photo manipulation involves transforming or altering a photograph using various methods and techniques to achieve desired results.

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Photorealism

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

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Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician.

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Sense

A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.

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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist.

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Technopoly

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly".

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Through-the-lens metering

In photography, through-the-lens (TTL) metering refers to a feature of cameras whereby the intensity of light reflected from the scene is measured through the lens; as opposed to using a separate metering window or external hand-held light meter.

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Tom Gunning

Thomas Francis Gunning (March 4, 1862 – March 17, 1931) was a Major League Baseball catcher.

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Travel

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_claim_(photography)

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