Style is a natural result, not an aim. Yet new and original voices always emerge to once again open up new paths not thought of by the theorists. Original voices will always emerge. Unaltered, or traditional, photographs are not real at all. They are flat in a three dimensional world.
Color is distorted by a real lack of control.
Black and white photography is further distorted or abstracted in a world of reality. Straight photography is not real at all - it is an illusion of reality, sometimes forming into fantasy, abstraction, or any other form the photographer wishes to create. Altered images, such as collages or digital images, are newer forms for the creative mind. It is these illusions and fantasies that we create our own private worlds with. The truly innovative artists create ideas and images unrelated to anything we have experienced or seen before, new ways of seeing and thinking about our own familiar worlds.