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The impact of photography on peace and war cannot be exaggerated. It helped destroy the raison d’etre of representational art. It transformed people’s visual consciousness of themselves and the world around them. It put a powerful tool at the disposal of every branch of science and communication. Picture of Crimean War brought the realities of military conflict to the world’s attention, just as family portraits revolutionized perceptions of social life. Photography also brought a new dimension to the historical record. Fifty years before sound could be recorded, photographic collections began to amass real images of all aspects of the past.
Yet the realism of photography was deceptive. The art of retoucher in official Soviet photography, for example, was notorious. Stalin removed all traces of Trotsky’s presence from the record; and Gorbachev’s unsightly birthmark was removed as late as 1985. But even the honest photographer’s arbitrary selection of angle, of the momentary snapshot, of light, tone, and texture, and above all, of subject, leaves as much hidden as revealed. The camera, like the historian, always lies.
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