I might accept that for models who, when posing, are often very different from who they really are.
But when not posing, such a close up of an athlete in the heat of competition during a game, I see only reality.
Well, Jim, this is the question...Native American Indians abhorred the camera, sensing that their souls might be being stolen...but what if they were entirely wrong?
What if the only thing a camera captures is our posed face to the world...we are all Poseurs before the brutality of the camera.
I don't see them as poseurs.
They are who they are - and want to be recognized for it.
They are street musicians; hoping to be recognized for the talent that they have.
Definition of poseur
: a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person
