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Auf der Suche nach Visueller Wahrheit. Authentizitätszuschreibung und das Potenzial der Wirklichkeitsabbildung durch Pressefotografien im Zeitalter digitaler Medien

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This essay uses examples of digital press photographs to discuss the condi-tions under which an image can be classified as visually true. While image authenticity is understood as a subjective attribution of credibility to a photo-graph, the visual truth refers to an objective nature. The analysis concludes that the evaluation of authenticity and truth of photographs must take differ-ent forms of manipulation before and during recording, as well as subse-quent image processing, into account. Lastly, it is demonstrated that visual truth is unreachable.

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Gerth, Sebastian: Auf der Suche nach Visueller Wahrheit. Authentizitätszuschreibung und das Potenzial der Wirklichkeitsabbildung durch Pressefotografien im Zeitalter digitaler Medien. In: IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, Jg. 14 (2018), Nr. 1, S. 5-23.http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16426
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