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Charge him. Court martial the actors. Enough.

 
 
This is a mirror reflection of an aspect of the United States. It’s a sad day to have eyes.

 

Let’s not forget, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had approval over Vanity Fair’s suggestion of photographer. She says she did so after looking at his portfolio and body of work.

“I conceived of it many years ago. I did a whole book of American politics called “Stump” (2014), where I did all close-ups. It was my attempt to circumnavigate the stage-managed image of politics and cut through the image that the public relations team wants to be presented, and get at something that feels more revealing about the theater of politics. It’s something I’ve been doing for a long time. I have done it to all sides of the political spectrum, not just Republicans. It’s part of how I think about portraiture in a lot of ways: close, intimate, revealing.”

“I didn’t put the injection sites on her. People seem to be shocked that I didn’t use Photoshop to retouch out blemishes and her injection marks. I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things…I’m surprised that a journalist would even need to ask me the question of “Why didn’t I retouch out the blemishes?” Because if I had, that would be a lie. I would be hiding the truth of what I saw there.”

“If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look? And I would also repeat: This has been a fixture of my work for many years. I’ve photographed all political stripes just like this. You will find in my book pictures of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, beloved figures on the left photographed in the same way. The truth is, I was skeptical about this assignment to begin with. I make my living as a celebrity photographer now, and I didn’t feel that I could go into that [political] context doing my celebrity photographer thing. And I was assured that was not the job. My job is to go in and draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see. I go in not with the mission of making someone look good or bad. Whether anyone believes me or not, that is not what my objective is. I go in wanting to make an image that truthfully portrays what I witnessed at the moment that I had that encounter with the subject.”

“…I don’t know if it says something about the world we live in, the age of Photoshop, the age of AI filters on your Instagram, but the fact that the internet is freaking out because they’re seeing real photos and not retouched ones says something to me.”
 
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