A Tabloid’s Photographs That Don’t Tell the Whole Story – The New York Times

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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.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/a-tabloids-photographs-that-dont-tell-the-whole-story/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

“ ‘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.”