In his article “Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part One) Errol Morris states that Fenton had altered the second photograph by altering the landscape that had been originally photographed. In order for this deduction to be held at face value, one must understand how to notice whether a photograph had been altered, no matter how little or obvious of the change, and to also be able to deduce if a sequence of photographs have a specific order to them. However, unlike examples made by Fenton, people are not always given the opportunities to find the differences between genuine and deceptive instantly. Retouching of an image can most definitely alter its meaning and whether it really occurred or whether it was a hoax. Some photographers tend to be extremely dramatic in there images either to make an extreme point or to brutally misrepresent the person, place, or thing in which is the subject. However, like the letter written to his wife, Fenton provided the reader with theories about which picture would be the real one. Between the curators and authors, they are merely making assumptions regarding the order and what really happened right before the photographs were taken. Such descriptions can only curtail the curiosity of reality. The only dilemma is that while falsifying the information may be a media stunt, it does have mild to severe repercussions for the subject of the image. It can sometimes be daunting to how far a person will go just to perform some kind of ridiculous or scandalous acts of trickery.
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