Week 9's reading was an article by Geoffrey Batchen. To start with photography is NOT dead and will never be. There are more photographers in world then ever before including professional and amateur. Compare this to the amount of digital imagery designers and photographers far out weigh them. Every person in the street has a camera, wether it is on their phone, ipod or an actual camera. Therefore photography is NOT dead.
In regards to this statement
In regards to this statement
“photographs are pictorial transformations of a three-dimensional world, pictures that depend for their legibility on a historically specific set of visual conventions” this simply means a photograph is a record of our world and taken in a format that has been accepted by society to be a true representation. To a photographer this is crap talk. No matter what photography is subjective and not objective. It is subjective because there is a person behind the camera deciding what way to take the photo, what light looks best, what is the correct exposure, what is the right aperture to use to make the picture convey what the photographer wants. I don't understand how Batchen can say it is objective, when a human is directing the image. Anyway back when viewing a photography we believe it is a true representation because we assume it has not been edited in a way to distort the truth. However a digital created image we know has been made up out of nothing even though it may look realistic we know it is not, because it is a fake. Even though a digital image looks real it will never compare to photography, because photography captures a moment that is happening before the photographer, instead of some graphic designer making a copy of the repetitive images we see everyday.
My favourite photographer Eve Arnold and her work of Marilyn Monroe.
