Photographer Ken Light: Degrees of truth and family photos

In this video, Ken Light shares a story that he heard from acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon and his father’s photographs from childhood. He describes how the photographs depict Avedon’s family with a slightly bent truth, creating a story to the images that wasn’t necessarily true. How do these bends of truth change the way that we look at images? We will be discussing this topic with more depth in both the Ethics and Critical Thinking sections, seeing how truth and manipulation in photographs can have dramatic effects.