In AS class, we discussed which of these photos is more truthful. This one:
Which one is more truthful? Personally I think that this is an easy topic to argue but also I think its impossible to argue. If a person was standing and seeing that event from two different positions, they be getting different, more or less cropped view. But isn't everything we see cropped? A human doesn't have 360 degree vision. Therefore rendering it impossible for someone standing 5 feet away to see as wide as someone 10ft away. Personally I've never thought that the closer person is seeing something less truthful, or more truthful for that matter. Some people may argue that the closer view gives more truth because there is more detail that can be seen. Others may argue that the bigger view is more truthful because you see more of the scene, the context that it's in. Personally I think that it is impossible to determine.
Does someone who has weaker vision get less of the truth? Is someone who is colorblind get less of the truth in what they see? I guess it depends on how you define "truth".
Alex, I completely agree with you. Everybody has different views and different frames of reference. What is funny to someone, may not be funny to someone else. The same thing is with something being truthful. What even constitutes something being truthful? Is it what society determines as honest or what you do? I don't think it's possible to categorize it in such black and white terms. It's much more complex than that. It's all about what the person perceives, and not every one thinks the same way.
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