It wasn’t long after the birth of photography in the 1830s that creative minds got busy. Images were being manipulated almost from the get-go, and this has only intensified with the technological advances of recent years. “Second Sight: New Representations in Photography,” which is at the Torrance Art Museum through May 14, pushes even further the notions of what a “camera” can or can’t do, and is the result still a photograph? The group show, curated by Chris Reynolds, is by turns serious and playful, with many of its young artists testing the waters of what’s possible – which, as it turns out, is quite a lot. These are some of the – admittedly conventional – images taken during the opening last Saturday.
