The problem is when some try to derive a thrill from these e-commerce photo editing works. And I don't mean an emotional outburst. I am referring to the artistic photographic emotion. The one that evokes the work of a Walker Evans when one perceives and this is not the case with the first during the reproduction and transformation of one's own everyday life. She evokes some of the work of Gursky's classmate Thomas Struth when he photographs his portraits and buildings not so much his museums and not at all not at all his flowers. If intelligence sincerity and emotion coexisted then construction or accompanying reasoning would not count.
Just as they should not count in any major project. And the revelation that the image has undergone any alteration or intervention in any chemical or digital way would not interest us nor would it touch us. Unfortunately however the construction of the project and the reasoning that accompanies it are for many young photographers the primary goal. The pained peasant woman that Evans was photographing in front of the wooden fence was bursting with laughter and Evans is the one who forced her to become sullen that is maximum interference with the flow of things. But our excitement and our admiration did not diminish in the slightest. Possibly they also increased.