Photos That Don't Capture Reality, but Change It




From the NYTimes.com, I found this article over how photographers have changed from artistically seeing and describing the world to current artists who take great liberties in creating worlds specific to their images. They mention Paris Photo, which is the largest festival for photography collecters, where 90 galleries from all over the world sell work from over 500 different artists, showing how popular photography has become in the art world in under a century.

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