can a documentary photograph be accepted as truth?
can it? well...no. if a picture is taken of a scene, it can be taken in different ways. a photograph speaks a thousand words. for example, if a photographer went to Iraq right now, and took a picture of an American shooting a gun at a local... it would look bad. especially if there was no story to it. for all we know, is that an American soldier is shooting at an innocent local. it doesn't look good on us.
... ALSO HELLO?! digital manipulation! completely changing the photo to make it look like something else.