>>2913125He's pretty right though. Arguing from a point of authenticity implies that there's a level of authenticity to begin with while assuming that authenticity is needed or wanted generally. Any image you can point to and say "this is a not fake image" will necessarily be arbitrary because there are aspects which are on some level or another are fake when compared to the original scene. There is always some level of divergence, many of which can be interchangeable (think of the expansion/compression of various perspectives) all while being no less fake than any other option. Even a normals don't escape this the majority of cases.
Verisimilitude can be a goal of any given photographer; however, there's no reason to assume or think that it should be the goal of all photographers.
