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For decades, people have made certain assumptions about photographs, the primary one being that they are truthful in depicting reality. While this is true in many cases, it is not always so. This book traces the rise of photography's perceived veracity. It shows why a combination of pre-knowledge of early developments in imagery, a persistent marketing campaign espousing the accuracy of photographs and a perception by users that what they got from their photographs was an accurate depiction acted to create the belief in the photograph's veracity. The book uses philosophy, physiology, psychology and photography to tell this story and concludes by describing a system of identification that could be used to separate images that are not always what they seem. The turbulence caused to photography with the introduction of digital imaging is described and is the impetus for the beginning of the discussion about where photography sits today amongst other images.

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Dr Michael J. Shapter, RBI, MCA, PhD, now a photographic theorist, trained as a photographer and worked in specialist areas including marine, scientific and technical photography. Now retired, he was a medical and forensic photographer in Australia and Britain for more than twenty years. He was also an Adjunct/Honorary Lecturer at universities in both countries. He is keenly interested in the mechanisms that allow viewers to ascertain information from photographs. He served two terms as President of the peak professional body representing medical photographers in Australia, and was a Registered Biomedical Illustrator and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration, and a Registered Clinical Photographer and a member of the Institute of Medical Illustrators in the UK. He has published over a dozen articles in academic journals.

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