Errol Morris states that photographs are connected to the physical world, which I believe we can all agree with. You cannot make a photograph of something you imagine in your own head. The images you see were at one time real, before they were taken into Photoshop and the like and adjusted. Even so they still are real. There is, and will always be a physical element to the photo. Even so, photographs still dictate what the viewer is shown. You see only what the taker wanted you to see. For example, a picture of a pair of wolves running in the snow but leaving out the fence that caged them. This posing makes photographs untruthful because you cannot see the entire picture, only whatever rectangle the maker decided to share with you.
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