Steve McCurry and Photojournalism’s Burden of Truth – Disphotic

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Steve McCurry and Photojournalism’s Burden of Truth

The intellectual milieu that gives rise to a technology or a practice leaves fingerprints on that thing which last for a long time, indeed which sometimes might even be impossible to completely rem…

via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/steve-mccurry-and-photojournalisms-burden-of-truth/

The real problem with McCurry’s photography isn’t down to the use of the clone tool to create them, it’s a problem embedded even more profoundly in his way of making photographs, and goes right back to those latent fingerprints