Concept
The gaze
Writing that works with this idea:
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark built her documentary practice through encounters that were embedded, revisited or carefully staged. Her subjects look back, pose, speak and change, but intimacy does not erase the…
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality taught me useful disciplines: verify, do not stage and do not let a caption outrun the evidence. It also taught me to mistake professional restraint for the absence of…
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Cindy Sherman’s Deepfake Ghost: Performing Identity
Cindy Sherman’s staged photographs expose identity as a constructed performance, a condition intensified by social media, filters and deepfakes.
