Photography and Appearance we talked about the spheres of the concept questioning the subject authorial decisions visual grammar dissemination among others. Postphotography could be thought of as a large sphere that brings together in turn other spheres such as vernacular artistic documentary and commercial photography to mention just a few genres but we also have other spheres such as virtual physical public private etc. It is difficult to generalize and reduce all these spheres to a single one that of Postphotography because each photographic field has new challenges potentialities and limitations at the present time in the era of connectivity.
Documentary photography is not facing the same e-commerce photo editing dilemmas in the age of connectivity as selfportraiture or commercial photography. Anna Wintour and Mario Testino Anna Wintour and Mario Testino Anna Wintour legendary editor of the American edition of Vogue continues to entrust her covers to Mario Testino instead of choosing a photograph obtained on Instagram by some fan. Likewise MercedesBenz publicists will continue to entrust the illustration of their advertisements to professional photographers specialized in the automotive sector such as Wynn Ruji Easton Chang or Anthony Soete and not markiyashka nor justatyler amateurs with Instagram accounts.
On the other hand although veracity is questioned in Postphotography it is also true that today more than ever thanks to specialized networks such as socialdocumentary.net we can have an overview of what interests documentary photographers – both amateurs and professionals – in all the world. Winn Ruji Winn Ruji Although magazine publications like Life seemed aseptic this was not the case W. Eugene Smith's legendary Country Doctor report was carefully planned and constructed but shown in a context where photography was taken for granted as faithful evidence of reality.
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