That Merkel/Trump G7 photo: and in the next moment…
…this is what happened:
Shaping the preferred narrative with selected photos that show a passing moment in time.
[Hat tip: vanderleun]
[NOTE: You might want to look at this earlier post from today if you haven’t already seen it.
Also, it’s unclear how much later—or even earlier—this photo was taken compared to the other, because the Japanese PM isn’t in this one. So it couldn’t have really been a moment’s difference between the two. But the point is that it’s the same occasion, different mood conveyed. There were probably an almost infinite number of moods and reactions from which to choose when publicizing a photo of the event.]
“the Japanese PM isn’t in this one”
And Justin “Bieber” isn’t behind Trump, instead he is standing near the front.
And therein lies the problem with photos, especially candid ones, they are static, no more than a moment in time and open to infinite interpretations, or, in today’s parlance, memes.
“Photo assumption” is not journalism. It’s gossip and wish casting. Okay, it’s what passes for journalism today. Sad!
Reminds me of your “eye opening” response to learning the context of the Vietnam photos.
A picture is worth a thousand words …
But it’s still fake news.
It’s like the exercise, ” Write a caption for this photograph”.
You can make it say anything you want.
Having set up a camera to take multiple exposures, it’s amazing how expressions change in a short period of time. You’ll notice in this picture Angela Merkle looks relatively happy, where in the other she looks stern. It all boils down to, people see what they want to see.
One thing we know by the statements, it wasn’t necessarily a happy ending.
I thought the G6+1 summit photos were historic. They’ve got nothing on the Trump-Kim photo.