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If the facts do not fit the theory, change the facts. |
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they do not it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.- Jessamyn West
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
