That's what I said,
every photograph is the result of manipulation of some kind, show me a "pure photo" and I will probably be able to give you at least 4 major ways in which the photographer and or the printer has
manipulated the image.
Then there are those that say that as long as it hasn't been "photoshop'd" but even the cheapest camera "photoshops" a photo
in the camera as it chooses a white balance among another hundred calculations before it delivers the jpeg.
So I stand by my
"Every photo there ever was has been manipulated somehow". I think the Purists are just not seeing the whole picture. A photograph is a photograph, all are the result of manipulation