The document discusses how photography has redefined concepts of reality, history, and memory. It explores how the invention of the camera allowed reality to be captured and experiences from the past to be revisited through photographs. However, photographs only show a fragment of reality and reality as the photographer frames it. Photography also changed perspectives and ways of seeing, as the photographer's viewpoint and the viewer's interpretation shape the meaning of a photograph. Photographs have had social, political, and economic impacts by documenting history and influencing consumerism. While photography provided a sense of objectively capturing reality, it is recognized that photographs are subjective accounts shaped by photographers.
This document provides a summary of lectures, workshops, and exhibitions from a contextual and textual module. It focuses on one particularly interesting lecture about post-mortem photography in the Victorian era. Post-mortem photography involved taking photos of deceased loved ones. It was widely practiced after the invention of photography in 1839 as families sought to remember their dead. The summary explores various aspects of post-mortem photography including its role in providing undeniable proof of existence, how it was used for both adults and infants, and how attitudes towards it changed over the 19th-20th centuries. Overall, the summary examines how post-mortem photography reflected cultural views of death and the power of the new photographic medium to influence human experiences
The document outlines a workshop on photovoice methodology, which is a participatory research method that involves community members taking photographs to represent their experiences and advocate for issues. The workshop discusses the theoretical foundations of photovoice, provides examples of previous photovoice projects, and reviews the typical stages involved in conducting a photovoice study, including having participants take photographs, discuss their photos, and hold a community exhibition.
Street photography involves capturing unposed moments in public spaces. It aims to document spontaneous interactions or convey a personal perspective through images. Effective street photography relies on techniques like using juxtaposition to find humor, capturing the decisive moment, and ensuring each photo tells a story. Common conventions include shooting in public areas and using composition and timing to express an idea or concept.
Documentary and Portrait Photography Course conducted at the FX School in Mumbai, India with aims to address the various types of documentary photography culminating in a series of photographs for publication.
This document is a photo index containing descriptions of photos in various issues of a publication. It lists photos of people attending or speaking at events, portraits of individuals, and group photos from activities like benefits and conferences. The photos are organized alphabetically by the subject's last name and include their name, any identifying information, and the volume and issue number where the photo appeared.
Bill Nichols identified six modes of documentary filmmaking: poetic, expositional, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. Each mode represents a different style with varying levels of narration, engagement between filmmaker and subjects, and acknowledgement of documentary's constructed nature. While influential, Nichols' modes have been criticized by some for being too rigid and not acknowledging that many documentaries incorporate multiple modes.
Bill Nichols identified six modes of documentary filmmaking: poetic, expositional, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. Each mode has a distinct style of filmmaking. For example, the observational mode aims to capture objective reality without influencing events, while the participatory mode directly engages filmmakers with subjects. However, critics argue that Nichols' modes are not definitive and many documentaries incorporate elements of different modes.
Documentary photography attempts to capture truthful and objective representations of real situations and people with minimal distortion. Social documentary photography specifically aims to bring attention to and potentially change aspects of society by recording human beings in natural, unposed conditions. Photojournalism combines images and text to tell factual news stories about timely events at local to international levels through pictures that provide a fair representation of recent occurrences.
This document provides a summary of lectures, workshops, and exhibitions from a contextual and textual module. It focuses on one particularly interesting lecture about post-mortem photography in the Victorian era. Post-mortem photography involved taking photos of deceased loved ones. It was widely practiced after the invention of photography in 1839 as families sought to remember their dead. The summary explores various aspects of post-mortem photography including its role in providing undeniable proof of existence, how it was used for both adults and infants, and how attitudes towards it changed over the 19th-20th centuries. Overall, the summary examines how post-mortem photography reflected cultural views of death and the power of the new photographic medium to influence human experiences
The document outlines a workshop on photovoice methodology, which is a participatory research method that involves community members taking photographs to represent their experiences and advocate for issues. The workshop discusses the theoretical foundations of photovoice, provides examples of previous photovoice projects, and reviews the typical stages involved in conducting a photovoice study, including having participants take photographs, discuss their photos, and hold a community exhibition.
Street photography involves capturing unposed moments in public spaces. It aims to document spontaneous interactions or convey a personal perspective through images. Effective street photography relies on techniques like using juxtaposition to find humor, capturing the decisive moment, and ensuring each photo tells a story. Common conventions include shooting in public areas and using composition and timing to express an idea or concept.
Documentary and Portrait Photography Course conducted at the FX School in Mumbai, India with aims to address the various types of documentary photography culminating in a series of photographs for publication.
This document is a photo index containing descriptions of photos in various issues of a publication. It lists photos of people attending or speaking at events, portraits of individuals, and group photos from activities like benefits and conferences. The photos are organized alphabetically by the subject's last name and include their name, any identifying information, and the volume and issue number where the photo appeared.
Bill Nichols identified six modes of documentary filmmaking: poetic, expositional, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. Each mode represents a different style with varying levels of narration, engagement between filmmaker and subjects, and acknowledgement of documentary's constructed nature. While influential, Nichols' modes have been criticized by some for being too rigid and not acknowledging that many documentaries incorporate multiple modes.
Bill Nichols identified six modes of documentary filmmaking: poetic, expositional, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. Each mode has a distinct style of filmmaking. For example, the observational mode aims to capture objective reality without influencing events, while the participatory mode directly engages filmmakers with subjects. However, critics argue that Nichols' modes are not definitive and many documentaries incorporate elements of different modes.
Documentary photography attempts to capture truthful and objective representations of real situations and people with minimal distortion. Social documentary photography specifically aims to bring attention to and potentially change aspects of society by recording human beings in natural, unposed conditions. Photojournalism combines images and text to tell factual news stories about timely events at local to international levels through pictures that provide a fair representation of recent occurrences.
Photography is a powerful way to capture and share moments in time. It has come a long way since its inception in 1839. What started as crude photographs using early techniques developed by Daguerre and Fox Talbot has evolved into an integral part of modern life, business, art, and history. Photography allows people to preserve both personal memories and significant historical events. It has endless applications and continues to be enhanced by new technologies. Photography is much more than a passing trend - it is ingrained in our lives both personally and culturally in countless ways.
Photography has evolved rapidly since its invention in 1839. It started as a way to document objects but is now used widely in daily life and many professions to connect people and document important events. Early cameras like the daguerreotype and talbotype led to advances like film and smaller, more portable cameras. Today's digital cameras make photography accessible to all. Photography has changed the world by allowing universal communication across borders and by empowering personal expression. It remains an important art form and a tool for professions like photojournalism and architecture.
This document provides an overview of the photography unit for a class. It includes a brief history of photography from early techniques like daguerreotypes to the development of film. It outlines weekly assignments like a photo journal that students will post online. It also previews topics that will be covered like the concept of "making" photographs, purposes of photography, and what defines a good photograph. Students are instructed to set up an online portfolio and reflect on an example photograph for an upcoming activity.
Photography began in 1827 when a French officer took the first photograph, though the exposure took eight hours; in 1839, Louis Daguerre invented a process allowing photographs to be reproduced on metal plates in just 30 minutes, revolutionizing the new language of photography which could capture and share moments in time. The document then discusses the history and evolution of photography from its early beginnings to modern digital photography, highlighting key inventors and technological advances that have increased the accessibility and applications of the medium over time.
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The document discusses 6 styles or modes of documentary filmmaking:
1. Observational documentary aims to observe real life with minimal interference, dating back to the 1960s with portable cameras and equipment. It uses minimal commentary and may include reenactments.
2. Expository documentaries present a strong argument or perspective through voiceover and titles directly addressing the audience. Images support the commentary's objective perspective.
3. Participatory documentaries include the filmmaker as part of the film, showing how their presence affects the situation. This approach believes filming cannot avoid influencing events.
4. Performative documentaries stress subjective experience and emotional responses, and may include hypothetical enactments of perspectives.
5.
This document provides an introduction to photography from its earliest daguerreotypes to modern digital photography. It discusses the evolution of photography from capturing reality to constructed images. Key points covered include the debate around establishing photography as an art form, the influence of Alfred Stieglitz, the concept of the "decisive moment" by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and how photography is now our projected psyche through ubiquitous digital images online.
The document discusses how photography has been used for social reform movements. Specifically, it talks about Jacob Riis and Lewis Hines, who in the late 19th/early 20th century used photography to document poor living and working conditions and bring attention to issues like inadequate housing, child labor, and the struggles of immigrants. Their photos provided visual evidence to raise public awareness and push for policy changes to address these social problems. While some of their photos were posed, many were presented as candid shots to powerfully portray real-life situations. Their work was influential in spurring social reforms around labor laws, immigration, and public health issues.
This document summarizes Sarah Killen's IMAP project presentation on how the concept of self and identity has developed within art and visual culture. The presentation discusses theories around how images can represent or conceal identity, from paintings to modern art to today's selfie culture. It also includes analyses of sample artworks, details on a practice piece created by Sarah, and proposals for further exploring the topic through additional art and research.
Pre-library Assignment
Art 150 sec 01
Your first name and last name
Your email address
Instructor: Nancy Yakimoski
October 17, 2017
working idea of the essay topic (working thesis statement)
This essay examines iconic photography to demonstrate the ways this type of image functions
in our society—in the historical moment when it was taken—as well as its afterlife in popular
culture, including the fine arts. Leading scholars in the field of iconic photography, Robert
Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, will be used to describe and discuss this genre.
The iconic Depression-era photograph, “Migrant Mother” (1936) by Dorothea Lange will be
examined in its original context and use. Lange took this photograph of Florence Thompson
while on assignment for the Farm Security Administration which was part of President
Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration. It was originally published in the San Francisco News
as a way to legitimize government expenditures to help those people hit hard by the
Depression. This essay will examine how and why the image became iconic.
The second part of the essay explores how iconic images, and this one in particular, has been
adapted by others and re-contextualized for other purposes. One examination is within the
context of fine art. In the late 1980s, American artist Kathy Grove began "The Other Series"
where she would remove female figures from photographs of famous pieces of art using bleach,
dyes, and airbrushing. With "Migrant Mother" she airbrushed it to look like a Calvin Klein ad.
The message of her work was to equate her removal of women and their achievements with the
way that historians and culture has erased women and their achievements.
Title: “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother
of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo,
California”
Other Title: “Migrant Mother”
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Negative size: 4" x5"
Date Created/Published: 1936 Feb. or Mar.
Library of Congress Reproduction Number:
LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516
Image source (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b29516/
Title: “After Lange, 1989-90”
Series: The Other Series, 1989-90
Photographer: Kathy Grove
Medium: digitally enhanced photo; gelatin silver print
19 x 18 in. (48.3 x 45.7 cm.)
Image source (Art net): http://www.artnet.com/artists/kathy-
grove/the-other-series-after-lange-50aXA8GzHJZ1dKUdakejXw2
http://www.artnet.com/artists/kathy-grove/the-other-series-after-lange-50aXA8GzHJZ1dKUdakejXw2
http://www.artnet.com/artists/kathy-grove/the-other-series-after-lange-50aXA8GzHJZ1dKUdakejXw2
Bibliography
Curtis, James C. “Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, and the Culture of the Great
Depression.” Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, 21
(Spring 1986): 1-20.
Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites. “The Borders of the Genre; Migrant Mother
and the Times Square Kiss.” No Caption Needed. Chic.
John Berger's book "Ways of Seeing" critiques traditional art history and analyses visual culture from a Marxist perspective. It challenges the elitism of European oil painting by examining how images are used and interpreted in relation to contemporary media and advertising. Berger argues that photography and other forms of mechanical reproduction have changed how art is experienced and appreciated. The meaning of photographs is shaped not just by what is depicted but also by the context in which images are presented and the assumptions and beliefs of viewers.
This document discusses issues with representing reality through documentaries from a postmodern perspective. It summarizes that documentaries, while appearing to represent truth, are inherently subjective since they involve choices by the filmmaker about what to include and exclude. It also notes that documentaries cannot truly convey the experience of living through an event themselves, but can only provide a "sanitized" representation of reality. The document then discusses postmodern critiques from theorists like Baudrillard, who argue that any representation of reality is suspect since some aspects will inevitably be omitted, and the representation is not the same as directly experiencing the real event.
Photography began with the camera obscura, a box with a pinhole that projected an upside-down image. Johannes Kepler first used the term "camera obscura" in 1604. In the 17th-18th centuries, scientists discovered images could be recorded using silver nitrate on paper. Louis Daguerre created the first permanent photograph, called a "daguerreotype", in 1827. Photography combines light and drawing, allowing memories and stories to be captured and shared. There are three main styles - artistic photography tells personal stories creatively, documentary photography shares real life situations objectively, and commercial photography is paid work like weddings and advertising that often breaks rules for dramatic effects.
1) Photography was invented in the 1830s and forever changed how humans capture and perceive moments. Early inventors included Niepce, Daguerre, and Fox Talbot.
2) The first permanent photograph took Niepce over 8 hours while Daguerre shortened the process to under 30 minutes.
3) Early photographic processes included photogenic drawings, daguerreotypes, and calotypes, which were all replaced by the late 1850s. Photography expanded opportunities for realism in art and portraiture.
The document provides a brief history of photography from the 19th century to present day. It notes that in the 19th century, photographs were truly capturing real life moments without editing, but now in the 21st century, photography has many more editing options that can distort the truth. Photography has changed from reliably capturing reality to sometimes manipulating perceptions.
The document discusses issues with representing reality through documentaries. It argues that documentaries are inherently subjective representations rather than objective truths due to filmmaking choices like camera angles, editing, and narrative construction. While documentaries aim to represent everyday reality, their reality is a hyperreality shaped by the filmmaker's perspective. Postmodern theorists like Baudrillard critique documentaries, arguing reality is destroyed in the process of representation and the resulting film is a simulacrum detached from the original reality. However, documentaries that admit their outsider perspective may achieve a different kind of truth. Ultimately, the document concludes documentaries can never fully or accurately represent everyday reality due to their subjective nature.
Susan Sontag analyzes how photography has changed over time from an art form to a mass social activity. She discusses photography's role in documenting reality but also in non-intervention. The document examines Sontag's ideas through analysis of the photo "The Agony of Omayra Sánchez," which shows a dying girl trapped in mud. While the photo documented a tragedy, it also illustrates Sontag's point about photographers prioritizing images over helping subjects. The photo had a large impact due to raising awareness about the disaster and lack of aid, showing how context influences a photo's effect.
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Photography is a powerful way to capture and share moments in time. It has come a long way since its inception in 1839. What started as crude photographs using early techniques developed by Daguerre and Fox Talbot has evolved into an integral part of modern life, business, art, and history. Photography allows people to preserve both personal memories and significant historical events. It has endless applications and continues to be enhanced by new technologies. Photography is much more than a passing trend - it is ingrained in our lives both personally and culturally in countless ways.
Photography has evolved rapidly since its invention in 1839. It started as a way to document objects but is now used widely in daily life and many professions to connect people and document important events. Early cameras like the daguerreotype and talbotype led to advances like film and smaller, more portable cameras. Today's digital cameras make photography accessible to all. Photography has changed the world by allowing universal communication across borders and by empowering personal expression. It remains an important art form and a tool for professions like photojournalism and architecture.
This document provides an overview of the photography unit for a class. It includes a brief history of photography from early techniques like daguerreotypes to the development of film. It outlines weekly assignments like a photo journal that students will post online. It also previews topics that will be covered like the concept of "making" photographs, purposes of photography, and what defines a good photograph. Students are instructed to set up an online portfolio and reflect on an example photograph for an upcoming activity.
Photography began in 1827 when a French officer took the first photograph, though the exposure took eight hours; in 1839, Louis Daguerre invented a process allowing photographs to be reproduced on metal plates in just 30 minutes, revolutionizing the new language of photography which could capture and share moments in time. The document then discusses the history and evolution of photography from its early beginnings to modern digital photography, highlighting key inventors and technological advances that have increased the accessibility and applications of the medium over time.
Is Photography An Art Essay
Photography Definition Essay
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Essay about Photography
History of Photography Essay
Photography Research Papers
The document discusses 6 styles or modes of documentary filmmaking:
1. Observational documentary aims to observe real life with minimal interference, dating back to the 1960s with portable cameras and equipment. It uses minimal commentary and may include reenactments.
2. Expository documentaries present a strong argument or perspective through voiceover and titles directly addressing the audience. Images support the commentary's objective perspective.
3. Participatory documentaries include the filmmaker as part of the film, showing how their presence affects the situation. This approach believes filming cannot avoid influencing events.
4. Performative documentaries stress subjective experience and emotional responses, and may include hypothetical enactments of perspectives.
5.
This document provides an introduction to photography from its earliest daguerreotypes to modern digital photography. It discusses the evolution of photography from capturing reality to constructed images. Key points covered include the debate around establishing photography as an art form, the influence of Alfred Stieglitz, the concept of the "decisive moment" by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and how photography is now our projected psyche through ubiquitous digital images online.
The document discusses how photography has been used for social reform movements. Specifically, it talks about Jacob Riis and Lewis Hines, who in the late 19th/early 20th century used photography to document poor living and working conditions and bring attention to issues like inadequate housing, child labor, and the struggles of immigrants. Their photos provided visual evidence to raise public awareness and push for policy changes to address these social problems. While some of their photos were posed, many were presented as candid shots to powerfully portray real-life situations. Their work was influential in spurring social reforms around labor laws, immigration, and public health issues.
This document summarizes Sarah Killen's IMAP project presentation on how the concept of self and identity has developed within art and visual culture. The presentation discusses theories around how images can represent or conceal identity, from paintings to modern art to today's selfie culture. It also includes analyses of sample artworks, details on a practice piece created by Sarah, and proposals for further exploring the topic through additional art and research.
Pre-library Assignment
Art 150 sec 01
Your first name and last name
Your email address
Instructor: Nancy Yakimoski
October 17, 2017
working idea of the essay topic (working thesis statement)
This essay examines iconic photography to demonstrate the ways this type of image functions
in our society—in the historical moment when it was taken—as well as its afterlife in popular
culture, including the fine arts. Leading scholars in the field of iconic photography, Robert
Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, will be used to describe and discuss this genre.
The iconic Depression-era photograph, “Migrant Mother” (1936) by Dorothea Lange will be
examined in its original context and use. Lange took this photograph of Florence Thompson
while on assignment for the Farm Security Administration which was part of President
Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration. It was originally published in the San Francisco News
as a way to legitimize government expenditures to help those people hit hard by the
Depression. This essay will examine how and why the image became iconic.
The second part of the essay explores how iconic images, and this one in particular, has been
adapted by others and re-contextualized for other purposes. One examination is within the
context of fine art. In the late 1980s, American artist Kathy Grove began "The Other Series"
where she would remove female figures from photographs of famous pieces of art using bleach,
dyes, and airbrushing. With "Migrant Mother" she airbrushed it to look like a Calvin Klein ad.
The message of her work was to equate her removal of women and their achievements with the
way that historians and culture has erased women and their achievements.
Title: “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother
of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo,
California”
Other Title: “Migrant Mother”
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Negative size: 4" x5"
Date Created/Published: 1936 Feb. or Mar.
Library of Congress Reproduction Number:
LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516
Image source (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b29516/
Title: “After Lange, 1989-90”
Series: The Other Series, 1989-90
Photographer: Kathy Grove
Medium: digitally enhanced photo; gelatin silver print
19 x 18 in. (48.3 x 45.7 cm.)
Image source (Art net): http://www.artnet.com/artists/kathy-
grove/the-other-series-after-lange-50aXA8GzHJZ1dKUdakejXw2
http://www.artnet.com/artists/kathy-grove/the-other-series-after-lange-50aXA8GzHJZ1dKUdakejXw2
http://www.artnet.com/artists/kathy-grove/the-other-series-after-lange-50aXA8GzHJZ1dKUdakejXw2
Bibliography
Curtis, James C. “Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, and the Culture of the Great
Depression.” Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, 21
(Spring 1986): 1-20.
Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites. “The Borders of the Genre; Migrant Mother
and the Times Square Kiss.” No Caption Needed. Chic.
John Berger's book "Ways of Seeing" critiques traditional art history and analyses visual culture from a Marxist perspective. It challenges the elitism of European oil painting by examining how images are used and interpreted in relation to contemporary media and advertising. Berger argues that photography and other forms of mechanical reproduction have changed how art is experienced and appreciated. The meaning of photographs is shaped not just by what is depicted but also by the context in which images are presented and the assumptions and beliefs of viewers.
This document discusses issues with representing reality through documentaries from a postmodern perspective. It summarizes that documentaries, while appearing to represent truth, are inherently subjective since they involve choices by the filmmaker about what to include and exclude. It also notes that documentaries cannot truly convey the experience of living through an event themselves, but can only provide a "sanitized" representation of reality. The document then discusses postmodern critiques from theorists like Baudrillard, who argue that any representation of reality is suspect since some aspects will inevitably be omitted, and the representation is not the same as directly experiencing the real event.
Photography began with the camera obscura, a box with a pinhole that projected an upside-down image. Johannes Kepler first used the term "camera obscura" in 1604. In the 17th-18th centuries, scientists discovered images could be recorded using silver nitrate on paper. Louis Daguerre created the first permanent photograph, called a "daguerreotype", in 1827. Photography combines light and drawing, allowing memories and stories to be captured and shared. There are three main styles - artistic photography tells personal stories creatively, documentary photography shares real life situations objectively, and commercial photography is paid work like weddings and advertising that often breaks rules for dramatic effects.
1) Photography was invented in the 1830s and forever changed how humans capture and perceive moments. Early inventors included Niepce, Daguerre, and Fox Talbot.
2) The first permanent photograph took Niepce over 8 hours while Daguerre shortened the process to under 30 minutes.
3) Early photographic processes included photogenic drawings, daguerreotypes, and calotypes, which were all replaced by the late 1850s. Photography expanded opportunities for realism in art and portraiture.
The document provides a brief history of photography from the 19th century to present day. It notes that in the 19th century, photographs were truly capturing real life moments without editing, but now in the 21st century, photography has many more editing options that can distort the truth. Photography has changed from reliably capturing reality to sometimes manipulating perceptions.
The document discusses issues with representing reality through documentaries. It argues that documentaries are inherently subjective representations rather than objective truths due to filmmaking choices like camera angles, editing, and narrative construction. While documentaries aim to represent everyday reality, their reality is a hyperreality shaped by the filmmaker's perspective. Postmodern theorists like Baudrillard critique documentaries, arguing reality is destroyed in the process of representation and the resulting film is a simulacrum detached from the original reality. However, documentaries that admit their outsider perspective may achieve a different kind of truth. Ultimately, the document concludes documentaries can never fully or accurately represent everyday reality due to their subjective nature.
Susan Sontag analyzes how photography has changed over time from an art form to a mass social activity. She discusses photography's role in documenting reality but also in non-intervention. The document examines Sontag's ideas through analysis of the photo "The Agony of Omayra Sánchez," which shows a dying girl trapped in mud. While the photo documented a tragedy, it also illustrates Sontag's point about photographers prioritizing images over helping subjects. The photo had a large impact due to raising awareness about the disaster and lack of aid, showing how context influences a photo's effect.
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2. Reality
Throughout history, people have attempted to capture ‘reality’ in different
ways, but it wasn’t until the invention of photography that it was felt reality
could truly be captured and frozen. Though reality can not be held, it can
be carried in the form of a photograph (Sontag, 1977). People can
‘experience’ the past and in a way live different experiences in the present
by interacting with photographs. People experience reality after it has taken
place, but a ‘recycled reality’ (Sontag, 1977). However, photography or
rather the photographer sometimes alters reality, for good (The Economist,
2010), or bad. In addition, photographs only show part of reality,
fragments of history and events, reducing these to collected anecdotes.
[Sontag, 1977)
HOME
4. “A photograph, while recording what is seen,
always and by its nature refers to what is not seen.
It isolates, preserves and presents a moment
taken from a continuum.” (Berger, 1980: 293)
BACK
“Everything that is visible hides something that is
invisible.” (René Magritte, cited in Photoquotes.com)
5. The invention of the camera and with it photography, changed the way
things were viewed; in other words perspective as it was known (Berger,
1972a) . Painting would never be the same. Unlike painting that was
restricted to time, space and composition, photography was not (Berger,
1980,2001). It changed people’s “Ways of seeing” (Berger, 1972a/b).
Perspective
HOME
6. Early photographers saw the camera as a copying machine and
themselves as “non-interfering observers”. However, people soon
discovered this was not the case; no two people ever take the same
photograph (Sontag, 1977). A new way of seeing came about:
“photographic seeing” (Sontag, 1977); practiced as much by the image -
maker and the reader – viewer (Berger, 1972b) . A photograph is an
account of how the image- maker views the world, and its meaning
depends on how the reader- viewer interprets it.
The notion that photographs provided an objective view was
abandoned. We see what the photographer wants us to see;
what is captured is done out of choice and with a purpose.
Maker/Viewer
HOME
7. Photography changed people’s perception of the world, human nature and suffering,
by exposing them to scenes never before captured, and by circulating them around the
world. A photograph brings to life things that those who are “privileged” or feel “safe” would
often rather ignore (Sontag, 2003). But what happens when suffering is viewed third hand
and so often, especially given the over saturation of images, and the distance between
object, subject, observer and victim? Though there are some who chose to ignore these
images, the majority are seized by them and find them ‘arresting’; they provoke despair
and indignation (Berger, 2001). “Despair takes on some of the others’ suffering to no
purpose. Indignation demands action” (Berger, 2001). This is why some photographs have
not only made history they have changed it .What is more. sometimes, “[P]hotographs do
more than document history – they make it” (Ted.com, 2010).
Making history
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8. HOME
Contradictions
“Photography is essentially an act of non-intervention…The person
who intervenes cannot record; the person who is recording cannot
intervene” (Sontag, 1977:36). Also, often the very newspapers that
publish these photographs, politically support the policies responsible
for the violence (Berger, 2001).
War photographs, for example, do not always awaken concern
because they reflect a discontinuous moment, whose “moral and
emotional weight depends on where it is inserted (Sontag, 1977:201).
9. HOME
Remediation
Had Thamus been alive when the camera was invented, he probably would not have
approved. The use of the camera and photography certainly redefined what was meant by
memory. Before the invention of the camera the image of an event was fixed in memory, unless
one had the money and time to pay an artist to paint it. Photographs became not so much
instruments of memory, but replacements of it (Proust, cited in Berger, 2001). That is why
Postman (1992:18) believes that technological change “is neither additive nor subtractive” but
“ecological” and “generates total change”.
“Remediation involves both homage and rivalry, for the new medium imitates some
features of the older medium, but also makes an implicit or explicit claim to improve on the older
one” (Bolter, 2001:23). Unlike paintings, photographs were light, cheap and easy to collect. In
addition, it could be argued that photography not only remediated painting, but prose as well; ‘a
picture tells a thousand words’. Words describe events, while images present a ‘visual
statement’ (Sontag, 1977). It is not the same to ‘read’ a verbal text than to ‘read/view’ a self-
contained image (Bolter, 2001:63).
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Economical
Remediation also takes place at an economic level, the new medium, as
well as what is being remediated, has to find its economic place (Bolter &
Grusin, 1996:24). With industrialization,
cameras became cheaper and photographs ubiquitous; this would change
how art was perceived, valued and even used (Berger, 1972a).
Photographs may not achieve the same market value as some famous
works of art, but they have become potent weapons in advertising and
today’s consumer society.
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Social
New technologies alter “the nature of community”, and the “character of our
symbols” (Potsman, 1992:20). For example, prior to the invention of the camera and
the existence of photographs, images formed a part of the building they were
designed for; this has changed (Berger, 1972a).
Industrializations also brought about change in family structure. “Photography
becomes a rite in family life” and a way to remember the extended family that was no
more (Sontag, 1977: 17). Unlike public photographs, most private photographs are
not void of context; the image – maker and the viewer can usually remember the
event surrounding the moment captured. The camera captures the event and
immortalizes it.
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Political
Photography has also served as a surveillance tool for modern
states: using photographs, for military purposes, identification and
control of its population, not to mention political propaganda amongst
other things.
The impact and change the camera has and continues to have, is
immense. Its influence in social, political and economical change
should not be underestimated. Nevertheless, great emphasis is placed
on ‘verbal text’ reading literacies; however, visual literacy is rarely
taught. This is definitely an area that merits our attention.
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