False objectivity:

Since photography is mistakenly relied upon for an “objective” accounting of events (“the camera never lies”), the inherently subjective, potentially personal nature of the medium is overlooked (Cartier-Bresson described photojournalism as “keeping a journal with a camera”). Its renderings are made in a standard, deceptively impersonal formula, without the idiosyncratic visions that define all of us and make events more comprehensible, more felt (both by photographer and reader), more palpable. Whereas text can be and often is authored - in feature pieces, editorials, analyses, etc., photography is generally thought of as non-fiction. It can be stylized (the work of Annie Liebowitz, for example), but hardly ever is it presented as interpretive, as utilizing the first person pronoun “I” or a specific “eye.” By forcing photography to be definitive, even when the photographer does not know what is going on, the imagery is forced to continually lie.