Thursday, January 14, 2010
Photography and time
The relationship between photography and time is a hard thing to pin-point. A photograph is a still image, less than a second of time flash frozen for later enjoyment. The instant it is taken it becomes a past event. Time flows, without regard to what happened in the past. where as a photograph is Created by events of the past. A moment in time is so much more then just an event that is easily captured. Pictures cannot be trusted because they are misread. Pictures are incorrect representations of time because they do not display every thing happening in the scene, just a visual representation. For instance a picture of a football game will not display what the crowd was yelling, how cold it was on that day or how exited everyone at the game was. A photograph may be more accurate then an artist's painting but it can never be a perfect representation of time.
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I completly agree with your statement that you can't trust pictures, because how you said every person has a different interpretation. I also agree with you that a photograph is still much more accurate, because it is much faster and it makes less mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you say, mainly when you state that "For instance a picture of a football game will not display what the crowd was yelling". But I do think that pictures can be trusted, because even though what it shows is limited you would probably be able to tell that the picture was taken in a football game.
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