Exercise: Tom Hunter.
Hunter freely admits that what he produces is not necessarily a true record of an action in real time but is a true representation of that action. It may be of an action that it was not possible to record at the time but is never the less worth recording. It represents a truth that with better lighting and a degree of direction and management is better told.
To claim that such an image is true documentary proof of an action would be a form of perjury when what is being exhibited is a personalised memory of a true event.
The receiving and reading of the eviction notice was a real event, but the image, Woman reading a possession order, is a reconstruction.
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