Is It Real:

“The daguerreotype had aspirations to both realistic and theatrical, as well as to the commercial.” Pg17

“Mirror can serve as a metaphor to reality, whereas the red velvet evokes theatre curtains” Pg 17

“A mirror image that would soon be kept in a protective case lined with red velvet.” Pg17

“The question arises: if manipulation is the first thing someone thinks of in connection to photography” Pg17

“What is this picture illustrates is that it is not just photography that is complicated, but the concepts of realism and reality too” Pg18

“The process of manipulation starts as soon as we frame a person, a landscape, an object, or a scene with our cameras: we chose a portrait or landscape format” Pg18

Bibliography:

Bright, S. and van Erp, H.(2019).Photography Decoded.London:Octupuss Publishing House.

Bright and van