There’s a good chance wildlife photos weren’t shot in the wild
When has professional photography ever represented itself as a strictly truthful, unambiguous, and simply decipherable medium?<p>What I mean is, who told you all those photos were of wild animals in the wild? Who doesn&#x27;t know that models in the cover of Vogue are covered in makeup? Is the dress blue or gold?<p>But unfortunately there is a cross-cutting of two unrelated problems here: the populist view that art should be nothing but a strict representation of the real world, coupled with the elitist view that photography is not real art.<p>Journalists choose words and cherry pick quotes to create an impression they want. Painters have literally zero external constraints. But involve a mechanical contraption literally designed to bend light and suddenly we ask people to not bend light.