The camera never lies, it can obscure the real picture, it can enhance, capture, immortalise or fragment the true picture.
The picture can then be manipulated by the mind, for any reason you want it to be.
It is not a tool of obscurity, but the picture can have so many meanings, and can be interproted in many different ways.
depends on who is looking at the picture, and whether the person who took the picture wanted it to be seen in that perspective. I suppose.
Just like the artist with a painting, he never gets the recognition when he is alive, but when he dies, he is famous, he spends his life working on a canvas, and everyone thinks it is brilliant, but the artist never recognises his own talent.
He paints his inner mind onto a canvas and never recognises the projection of his thoughts may live on for ever, and enlighten so many, so far into the future.
Even when the picture is so obscure that we don't see the real depth of the artist, like Picasso, there will always be some folk who do.
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