Pedro Meyer describes this image as being 'truthful to New York', but I can not see sense in his reasons as this is a digital composite and is far from the truth. In his book 'Truth & Fictions: a journey from documentary to digital photography' he describes his thoughts on a few of this composites he has produced over the years. He talks about his work being truthful to the subject of his composites. However, Meyer's earlier work was more 'credible' as the documentary works saw him not doing theses drastic changes that he does to his later work. Some of this images are creatively done; some you can't even notice the changes because of his good use of post-production software, one of these being Biblical Times, New York, 1987/93. However, some of his images have ridiculous concepts and the composites he chooses just do not work, like the Temptation of the Angel, 1991/91.There is a lot of digital composites in use within the News and other media formats. These are used to bring across stronger messages and to shock the public more then the original image could ever do. A lot of composites used in the News are used to grab the attention of the audience and this can put across the wrong message and lead to the wrong impression, like the image someone had done just after the 9/11 incident which caused an up roar especially with in families and friends of people who died. This is one was a digital composite could be used in the wrong way.
Meyer,P (1995) Truth & Fiction: a journey from documentary to digital photography, Aperture Foundation, New York.
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