Am I the only one that finds it terribly poetic that the author, by choosing words like 'faked', is doing exactly the same thing she is accusing him of -- affecting a specific desired effect on the audience.
He was, as he stated, attempting to capture the essence of something that does not occur in a single instant of time. He may have been able to stage a single instant that portrayed what he wished to display, but that would have been just as 'fake'.
The whole idea of photo-journalism capturing the event as-is, just seems so pointless to me -- not to mention impossible. After all, the photographer determines how the event is to be conveyed, if in no other way than by deciding what is worth pointing his camera at.
David
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