Arguments that photography is or is not "real' seem to stake for granted the idea that reality
itself is purely objective.( 2 ) amore sensible argument recognizes photography's inherent subjectivity
as Well as its undeniable potential for authenticity. As Richard Lacayo wrote in the June 8, 1998
issue of 72ze: “Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most
indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems一which after_all。it may_wellbe。lts
…8 paradox too lovely to ignore and too profound to solve."