Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that happened. So it's the old thing that you still cannot trust photography at all or you have to know who is distributing the photograph. In terms of cell phone photography, I think nobody cares about a photograph anymore because they're taking so many pictures just for fun.
Thomas RuffIf you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky just a little more blue than it was. Manipulation is very discrete and because it's so discrete nobody cares about it anymore. People accept manipulated photographs, I think.
Thomas RuffThe people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.
Thomas RuffI think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.
Thomas RuffPhotographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.
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