DTC 356 POL Representation and Realism

The question of the truth of Photography, and how it represents either reality or an objective personal view, was a new thought to me. 

I had never really given it that kind of thought. I see photography as art, another form of expression. 

But it also is a record of what was. 

The problem of deciding whether a photograph is evidence of reality or an objective view seems to belittle the photograph itself.

Can't it be both? Why can't a photograph present truthful evidence of a past event, but also show an objective view of the Photographer?

In every facet of life, when a story is retold in any way, the person telling it has their own views. The truth is always filtered through an objective lens, but it can still be true. 

As for the realism section, it is strange to think that people tried to regulate it. Even stranger, is to think that a person could believe representing depth to be deceptive to realism rather than enhancing it.

-Thomas Holland