Herschel,
I agree with you for the most part. The way photographs are made - the added content - often as not, can confuse or get in the way of the photographer's vision. Photographs can be about process and objects as well as images. This leads to the unresolvable arguments.
Teleologically speaking, I think a Real Photograph is film-based and Pluto is a planet. (Except on alternate Wednesdays)
AZ
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Subject: images for humans
From: Herschel Mair <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, August 27, 2006 2:09 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Digital schmigital.analogue schmanalogOne of the things that I try to get into my students' head is the fact that photographs are made for human beings to see.A photograph of a banana is not a banana. It is not silver halide. It is not pixels and it neither ink nor paper.Indeed we use all the above ingredients to make a photograph (Including the banana) but a Photograph is independent of all of these.A photograph is an idea. It is a concept or a vision. Something I thought, more than something I saw. And, in the end, it is created to communicate this thought tother people.All the other stuff is only as useful as it supports the communication of this thought from one human being to another.We can get very creative or technical in the way we do this but we shouldn't lose sight of what is really important. The communication of an idea.Even the simplest snapshot or a mechanically produced image from a surveillance camera in a bank follows this principle.herschel
Herschel Mair
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