Fixation of reality

Recently, I came across an analysis of photographs by some photographer and there was such a phrase: no one is interested in a simple fixation of reality, especially those compositions to which you have nothing to do. I didn't agree.

Of course, you have to build a frame, even if it's a non-staged genre.

The difference in staging and non-staging is that in the first case you directly influence the objects in the frame, arranging them as you need.

Non-staged implies searching for compositions using the viewfinder and cropping reality.

In other words, we no longer influence the objects, but only change the viewing angle and shooting point in order to combine something and compare it in the right way.

And if it's a street, then we're waiting for the right moment, the right person at the right point.

What then is a fixation of reality where we have nothing to do with composition?

It seems to me that everywhere and always there is a direct or indirect influence on the components of the frame.

Even if we lifted up the camera and photographed the building from an acute angle, this is our influence on the composition.

But what am I talking about? I'm discussing some unknown photographer whose opinion may be completely incorrect...It just reflected.

After all, I often capture reality, where I just take pictures of streets and people on them.

Almost the Google street view or Bing-panorama.

But not everything is so clear ...

I watch and choose anyway. I am waiting for a person in a suitable place for me.

I'm waiting for the right moment or I'm choosing specific people in attractive clothes.

Or I'm trying to capture some emotion.

And if it's a spotty street, where the main principle is to pile up details, then it's generally not an easy search.

The only genre of direct fixation of reality that is similar in the descriptions of that photographer may be landscape.

And in general: isn't all photography a direct fixation of reality?

Photography is entirely documentary in its essence.

And documentality is that very fixation.

Plus, if we take formalism (an offshoot of street photography, where the emphasis is on shapes, lines, shadows, light and combinations of geometry of street objects), then this is an obvious fixation of reality, where we are very carefully looking for an interesting composition, which means we are directly related to it.

It turns out that only the robot in Google street view has nothing to do with the composition.

And where a person acts as a camera holder and button presser, the composition will always be chosen by them.