A tale of two photos.
Dorothea Lange stood in that migrant camp in 1936. She was there. Florence was there. The moment was real.
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Boris Eldagsen typed an AI prompt in 2023. No one was there. No moment existed. The woman is a fiction.
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Both images are powerful. Only one tells a true story. People win.
Some images can tell remarkable human stories.
The story of a brave woman, a mother, a survivor.
Photographer | Dorothea Lange
Title | "Migrant Mother" (1936)
This picture is a Time/Life classic of American history.
Some can't.
An image of a woman who never existed.
Artist | AI via Boris Eldagsen
Title | "The Electrician" (2023)
This picture won the Sony World Photography contest in 2023.
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