Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Photography and Time
I do not think that Time and Photography can easily be compared. Yes, the object of photography is to capture a moment in time but that moment of time is relatively false because there is no exact time of when it was taken. Time continues to move while pictures freeze time. However, they can be compared by saying that photography is related to moments and aspects in time. I suppose, if it was clear to see the sun in the picture, one could determine the hour the picture was taken but even then, is not exact. Its' not exact because first of all the sun is too bright to look at for a period to guess minuets and secondly, there is no exact place in the sky where seconds or even minutes are positioned. I think it depends on what you want to affect, what your main idea is. If its' just a picture to show a couple or of scenery its main idea is to affect the viewer and to give he/she an emotional feeling. If the picture is taken for study or for evidence its' to prove a point. Therefore I think that the effectiveness of photography is based on what the main point to take the picture is. I do trust this mechanical medium over others because surroundings although sometimes blurry are not made up; the shadows are real, the people are real ect.
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I agree whole heatedly with your statement about how, the intention of a piece can affect the manor in which it taken. However I feel that you, may be neglecting the affect our sub-conches mind can have on us even when one tries to treat something in a detached manor.
ReplyDeleteTHis seems to be all good an well, but where does the influence of photo manipulation come in? I feel that if one tries to take actual fact from a photograph, it is a leap of faith, and that it is also stupid. You made a good point about the sun, but even still, one is not provided with enough information to even consider this being a source of evidence.
ReplyDeleteAre we facing down the lesser of all evils in this case? is the photograph the 'least illusory' of the plastic arts? Can we even compare methods of mimesis, let alone methods of mechanical reproduction?
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