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Farhad Manjoo in Salon:

April 22, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Farhad Manjoo in Salon:

A picture is no longer worth a thousand words. In the digital age, photographic evidence no longer means ‘proof’. The point that gets missed, however, is that it’s about time – photographs never consisted of proof of anything, have always been subject to doctoring and manipulation, and anyhow have weight far beyond their supposed “truth” or “fiction”.

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