A Tabloid’s Photographs That Don’t Tell the Whole Story
PM, the 1940s photo-rich New York tabloid, asked readers to interpret its pictures — 75 of which are currently at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea.
“ ‘The camera cannot lie’ is true only in the sense that it is a little harder to tell a complete falsehood with a camera than with words,” Ralph Steiner wrote. “The thing to bear in mind in ‘reading’ photographs is that none of them can tell the full truth.”