Fabricated Photography

• Photographs are constructed rather than taken
• Hyppolyte Bayard 1840
• completely fabricated it and published it
• controversy, looks like he's dying, included a suicide note with the image
• complaining that he wasn't included in the invention of photography
• ppl had a hard time telling if it was real or not
• the camera doesn't lie but is incapable of telling the truth
• don't trust photography, just recording the appearance of things
• Ralph Eugene Meatyard
• fascinated with masks, horror
• referencing society
• Less Krims
• purposefully disturbing
• The Incredible Case of the Stack O Wheats Murder
• based on actual murder
• stack of pancakes indicates how many murders 
• studied forensic photograph
• criticized as misogynistic, objective women as victims
• Arthur Tress
• fabricating ppl's secret dreams
• performance + documentary + fabricated
• 80's 90's staged and fabricated photography
• media
• performance, exaggeration
• personal and political
• photographer have expanded their traditional role
• useful detachment about photography, artists not photographers
• photography as a tool to carry information
• implied meaning, subtext