[pure-silver] Re: At long last you can watch Long Live Film
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:10:16 -0500
On 11/19/2013 12:34 PM, Bill wrote:
> A photograph, unless post-processed, is exactly a representation of
> what’s before the camera. Where you place the camera and when you trip
> the shutter can, of course, make vast differences, but the essence of
> any photograph is depiction of the subject at hand.
Do I ever disagree with that statement!
It is one of many possible representations of what is wat is before the
camera. But _exactly_ is really a poor term to use here. Many things
that might be before the camera are polychromatic, whereas I might
photograph it with monocromatic film. Most things are three dimensional,
whereas my image will just be a geometric projection of that thing
ultimately onto a piece of paper. And in picking my point of view, I
distort what others might see if they look at the same object, even if
they look at it at the same time as I do.
A psychologist at a local community college, who is also a quite good
photographer, once gave a lecture to the effect that all photographs are
surreal. I.e., they look real, they are even sometimes accepted as
evidence in courtrooms. But it is quite easy to photograph something in
a way that would be amazingly misleading in a court room. Say by making
a portrait of someone with an 8 millimeter lens on a 35 millimeter
camera and getting very close to the subject. That would a geometric
projection of what was in front of the camera, and it might be
interesting in some way.
Yikes.
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