Synthesis Essay: Is Photography The Only Truth?

In 2017, we are constantly consumed by photography, we sometimes forget the power a photograph can have. A photograph can represent or misrepresent, someone or something - an object, a person, an event. A photograph is based on the perceptive of the photographer. A photograph is the visual representation of a moment in time. Photography is about memories and history. History in a textbook is not necessarily the only truth. Personal histories are the truth, but universal history comes from different perceptive and we can not necessarily say one history is the only truth.

The photograph of the little girl running as the photograph is being taken with the city skyline and Twin Towers behind her is an example of historical truth and perceptive. That little girl is me, I don’t remind that photograph being taken. The image can be perceived as a truth because there is a photograph. However, I don’t know what is the truth behind the photograph because I don’t remember it being taken. My father took the photograph so it is the truth for him. Photography is a truth but it is not the truth.
They are always right in their actions which is always done to “better the life” of the American people. But what have those actions caused after and should we normalize and accept it? What have they done? These images are not the truth, these images are exploring history of the United States and how life has been affected, personally and universally by white