The Myth of Photographic Truth

Here is a cropped image:

I cropped this photo to make the image appear as just an ordinary billboard on a street corner


This is the original photograph:

The second billboard that was originally in the photo gives the image a (hilarious) new meaning. Placing a McDonald's advertisement next to a childhood obesity billboard or vice versa, when McDonalds is often targeted as being a cause for childhood obesity is an ironic and therefore amusing image to take in. Obviously by cropping this image, I was able to take out the ironic social commentary and make an innocent image. This shows that no photograph is truly, truth.