Off Shana’s Teaching Activity.
I was specially interested in the discussion surrounding Walker Evans’ photographs and whether or not they could be understood much more as propaganda than art/research/documentation.
Honestly I am not sure if all three possibilities are really that far away from each other. Is it a matter of impact? of process? of ethics?
Likewise, I recently read and heard about this picture
The discussion centered around whether or not the cannon bals had been placed; it seems that this “fact” could somehow change the value of the image.
Personally I feel that the very act of snapping a picture implies some sort of staging, a mediated abstraction that reveals and responds to personal and political agendas that have very little to do with factual reality.
Of course, now the question must center on research itself…
notas desde el inxilio 
or maybe the question centers on “truth” in research?