Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West.
From an illustrator's point of view, I first agreed with this quote. One of the first thoughts that made me agree with this quote, was a example of this quote in use, that you can easily paint a unicorn, rather than having to find one and take a picture of one; people are more likely to trust the photograph, because they believe that to take that photograph, the photographer would have had to find a real-life unicorn. However, upon thinking about it, the thought that I had was considering the technology around today, I think this quote is not quite right, mainly due to the fact that, yes, a photograph is more likely to gain people's trust, because you have to have a subject to take a photo of, but nowadays, with software like Photoshop, and Green Screens, you don't necessarily have to have a real-life subject; you can easily take a photograph of where you want the scene to be based, and then upload it onto the computer, and layer something over the top; digitally manipulating the photograph.
An example of photo manipulation; a photomontage of 16 photographs, which have been manipulated to create the illusion that it is a real landscape.
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