LETTER OF THE WEEK
Artificial logic
ith the AI programs ChatGPT and DALL·E2 much in the public eye, I often hear that ‘all photography is a lie’. The statement is rhetorical and polemical but not logical or useful. Snaps are inanimate objects. They cannot lie. Does the statement imply that all photographers lie? No. If you mean that photographs do not record the ‘truth’, then I cannot communicate with you, for I don’t understand your meaning of the word. A photograph on Ilford HP5 taken by my Yashica FR-I mounted with a fisheye lens is not an image that looks like the real world. But to deny it the status of truth is effectively to say that only vision through your two eyes is somehow the truth. A
