Michael Reichmann has posted a new article called “Levels of Abstraction - Are Your Photographs “Real”?”, which explores the boundaries between so-called straight photography and manipulation.

“For some reason there are photographers who believe that photographs and the real world have more than a passing relationship to each other. When they see a photograph that has been in some visible way altered, modified or manipulated they cry “foul” ? taking on the mantle of protectors of the sanctity of the inviolate image. Sorry folks, but there ain’t no such thing as a “real” photograph. Every photographic image that you have ever seen is but a pale reflection of reality, and a distorted one at that…”

Website: Luminous Landscape - “Levels of Abstraction”