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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 1044471, member: 22602&quot;]Sorry to digress, but this is turning into an interesting thread. Photography is an insidious medium: it can never deliver authenticity, only interpretations of it. Its capacity to render things more real than real has, over time, blurred the threshold between reality and representation (or the natural and the artificial). Famous essays have been written about this as early as 1937.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photography, as it saturated our culture with images, launched a trajectory wherein we aren&#039;t satisfied with the merely real anymore, we continually crave a &quot;better&quot; version—whether it&#039;s a picture on a frozen entree (ever see the food inside come close to resembling it?) or an airbrushed centerfold model.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now this dilemma plays out in pictures of coins on this thread: we wrestle between accuracy (honesty) and the seduction of pumped-up color.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, pardon the diatribe but I think it&#039;s absolutely relevant to this thread and coin photography (and e-commerce) in general. Having said that, I agree with krispy:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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