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Take a print in your hands. A traditional print. Yes, it can be hold, it can be touched, it can be smelled, it can be felt.
This essay themasised the uniqueness of the physical process as well as the thought process of analogue photography.
As Henri Cartier Bresson wrote nicely about the decisive moment "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.".This moment you are waiting for it is just a fraction of a second, before you press the shutter, you make a personal connection with the scene, and wait for the right moment to shoot. But this right moment, this 125 of a second we are blind, the image exists just in our imagination, as a result to the connection we made before we decided to press the shutter. But the real image, is not there, you have not seen it. It is in captured in the camera, and comes out just after processing the film. You may see your decision 1 hour after the photo was taken or 1 year after the photo was taken.
Buy a film, load the camera shoot it, process it. Why do so many people still bother with the process of analog photography? In the age of digital photography, we get more and more confronted with the words easy,fast and cheap.
Now days we are, as a Black and White photographer, always forced, to stand up for, why we „still“ shoot photographs analogue- which the audience indeed associate with slowness, expensive and complicated. For our time it is perhaps characteristic, that the powerful advertising industries can create such conceptual association, without making the affected people question, if...
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...eeps time.
The tip of the pencil meets the paper. The result of an direct impulse, like the light exposes a negative through the diaphragm and fixes what´s in focus.
Digitally delayed time can not keep up with the momentum of what is seen.
It produces a hybrid moment, it leads to a thought image, which is contrary to the gazed-upon and observed one.
In an analogue image the seen is self-evidently coungruent with ones own inner eye.“
-Lothar Baumgarten
Considering all this stages in picture making, every time you press the shutter, it becomes something personal, magical. All the power is given, to be able to absorb and construct at the same time.
You can take a photograph in your hands, swipe gently with a finger over the surface and feel the texture of the paper.
You can hang a photograph on the wall or hide it in a drawer.
“There is in fact no such thing as an instantaneous photograph. All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time.” -John Szarkowski Photography consists of a tracing of time; the duration of the photograph’s exposure time determines the resulting image. Photography is fundamentally a time-based medium.
Gregory Crewdson once said “I love the experience of cinema- being enveloped in a complete world of another’s imagination. I love the quality of film- how it can capture so richly the color and light of a scene. And I love photography - for what it leaves unsaid for it is from this that we can start to spin our own imagination.” Crewdson accomplishes the both the most intriguing and frustrating aspect of art; he poses a question yet refuses to reveal the answer. It is the unanswerable question that leads the viewer to study the work and spend hours contemplating its meaning.
I have the desire to photograph. I go out with my camera. I come across something that excited me emotionally, spiritually, aesthetically. I see the photograph in my mind’s eye and I compose and expose the negative. I give you the print as the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
A picture is more than just a piece of time captured within a light-sensitive emulsion, it is an experience one has whose story is told through an enchanting image. I photograph the world in the ways I see it. Every curious angle, vibrant color, and abnormal subject makes me think, and want to spark someone else’s thought process. The photographs in this work were not chosen by me, but by the reactions each image received when looked at. If a photo was merely glanced at or given a casual compliment, then I didn’t feel it was strong enough a work, but if one was to stop somebody, and be studied in curiosity, or question, then the picture was right to be chosen.
Taking into consideration Roger Ballen’s opinion, that when the viewers take a look at a photograph they ought to experience that instant existed in time; that it is genuine. (Amison 2014: http://www.gommamag.com/v6/?p=1922) One can derive that regardless of the pain expressed in the image that it belongs to a life of the subject in the photograph - it is merely a moment within their life and even though it is crammed with narrative, it is only one fragment of the subject’s life. It’s like something occurred or is about to, yet in the particular instance, nothing is taking place; it is captured eter...
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In this work of art, Walter Benjamin discusses a shift in opinion and its affects in the awakening of the advent of photography as well as film in the twentieth century. He writes of the sense changes within humanity’s entire manner of existence. He gives importance to the way we see the visual work of art. The insightful piece of writing provides a general history of alterations in art in the modern age. Walter Benjamin’s main and central claim is that our human sensory perspective is not intrinsic or natural in any
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This book is a note written by Roland Barthes to record the dialectical way he thought about the eidos(form, essence, type, species) of Photographs. Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist in his lifetime, but surprisingly he was not a photographer. As Barthes had a belief that art works consists with signs and structures, he had investigated semiotics and structuralism. However, through Camera Lucida, he realized the limitation of structuralism and the impression to analyze Photography with only semiotics and structuralism. Barthes concludes with talking about unclassifiable aspects of Photography. I could sense the direction Barthes wanted to go through the first chapter ‘Specialty of the Photograph’. He tried to define something by phenomenology
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When going for a walk, a person takes in the beauty around them. On this particular day, the refulgent sun is extra bright, making the sky a perfect blue. White, puffy clouds fill the sky, slowing moving at their own pace. The wind is peacefully calm, making the trees stand tall and proud. There is no humidity in the air. As this person walks down the road, they see a deer with her two fawns. The moment is absolutely beautiful. Moments like this happen only once in a great while, making us wanting to stay in the particular moment forever. Unfortunately, time moves on, but only if there were some way to capture the day’s magnificence. Thanks to Joseph Niépce, we can now capture these moments and others that take our breath away. The invention of the camera and its many makeovers has changed the art of photography.
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