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What is the difference between making a photograph and taking one? It seems some photographers do not like the idea that an artist might stage a scene before capturing it, like the genre should be about recording what is there rather than “creating”.

NPR : Gregory Crewdson’s Photo Alchemy

Gregory Crewdson doesn’t so much take pictures as make them. Some critics say the photographer and artist is reinventing the genre by using film techniques to stage pictures.