… artists for visual expression and record of works
… journalists to record events
… scientists to gather data about the physical universe
… advertisers to promote
… and nearly everyone else who is drawn to photography’s ability to faithfully record the world
The nature of photography….
• Feeling of reality/authenticity; what will you do with this fact?
• Time is frozen; recording historical events for future
very seductive.
• 2D
• Continuous tone
Photographs today are easily reproducible, while paintings are not. While some may say that digital paintings are able to be easily reproduced due to the increases in technology, the sheer scale of photographs that are printed/reproduced everyday compared to the number of digital painting that are reproduced speaks for itself.
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."
— Susan Sontag
The camera has been called the most important invention since the printing press (GUTENBERG press in 1436). Photography has changed the world by giving us an
immense amount of experience that normally is not our experience.
Never before in human history did people have any idea of what they looked like as children.
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