Tuesday, January 12, 2010

the motion of photografs

Time and photographs have a contradictory relationship but not so much, so that they are rendered incongruous. They may seem to be inherently contradictory, time being in a state of constant motion and pictures being still. However it would seem to me that if time is indeed in a state of Constant motion then any picture is also in constant motion only in a cycle that covers such a tiny fraction of a second that it's movment is indicenible. If this principal holds ture then the only way to get an actual still photograph is to cool the shrouding of the camera to absolute zero. Now just because the photograph may also be moving may not describe that photographsa are an accurate depicter of realigy but rather only an accurate depicter of what it sees, and what is sees may be altered by human interference or anything for that matter. This then makes the photograph aas unreliable as any other art form in experssing reallity because for a photograph to be taken it must be taken by a human and therefor is subject to the same subjective errors as painting or any other forms of self expression.

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  1. I found it interesting that you said photography is as unreliable as any other art form. Although I agree that it can just as easily be molded to the artists wants as a painting, doesn't the fact that photography is so automatic as opposed to the manual act of painting create a different sense of "real"?

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