There have been, in history, a multiplicity of uses for photography, but the true question is can it be trusted? Terry Barrett states that photography grew up and progressed with claims of having a special relationship with reality. This would suggest that everything we see is true and shows "exactness," especially with a caption the image can be qualified as reality. A view of what someone else saw, of what really happened. Now more then ever we can see that photographs can be changed and altered, that captions no longer hold truth to what may have actually occurred. "A Capitalist society requires a culture based on images."the undermining of images altogether rids any reality.
As far as captions go, there is a insisting that "all text be read critically." Postmodernists would say that the author persuades only one type of meaning. Modernist photography is focused on positions parallel to those given in early paintings and sculptures, which would allow them to think that this type of photography is much above commercial photography. This type of photography has become its own entity. Photography has been turned into something that may evoke emotions of resistance or sympathy, but it does need to be noted that through the authors descriptions we need to determine "how representation affects what is represented."
There are so many subsets of photography as an art form that it can influence many aspects of the world. "There is no single Marxism, no single feminism, no single, universally accepted postmodernism."
"Theoretical questions receive different answers, as do interpersonal and evaluative questions. Theorizing about photography, like interpreting and evaluations photographs results in conclusions that are more or less enlightening, more or less informative, more or less helpful in making photography, photographs, and the world understandable."
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