Bibliography: Bright, S. and Van Erp, H. (2019), Photography Decoded. London; Octopus Publishing House.

‘Photography emerged into a 19th-century world that was undergoing rapid transformation in almost every aspect, and as such the new medium answered a deep human need to see and explore this changing landscape in unprecedented detail.’  (Bright, S. and Van Erp, H. 2019: 17)

‘If manipulation is the first thing someone thinks of in connection to photography, what does that say about the value of the photograph as a reflection of reality? And what does a ‘real photo’ even look like: is it something you can hold? Is it something you can see on a screen and alter?’  (Bright, S. and Van Erp, H. 2019: 17)

‘The process of manipulation starts as soon as we frame a person, a landscape, an object or a scene with our cameras: we choose a portrait or landscape format.’ (Bright, S. and Van Erp, H. 2019; 18)

‘The binding principle of photography, however, remains it’s relationship to reality, especially when at question is documentary photography or a picture in news media: we are convinced that ‘it happened’- that the events they represent are real, that they actually took place.’  (Bright, S. and Van Erp, H. 2019: 18)