Monday, February 22, 2010

metaphors and junk

Kyle B.
Gurjot R.
Maria G
Corey N.
· Picture taking is an event in itself.
· Photography is mainly a social right, a defense against anxiety and a tool of power.
· Photography has become one of the principle devices for experiencing something, for giving an appearance of participation showing that you were there.
· A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence.
· Reminder of suffering.
· The ability to reinforce or build morals.
· To collect photograph is to collect the world.
· Photograph became part of the general furniture of the environment,
· Photography implies we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it.
· Like guns and cars cameras are fantasy machines whos use is addicting.
· Today everything exist to end in a photograph.
· Photograph is an elegiac art, a twilight art.
· Photographs more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time rather than a flow.
· Photographs are as much interpretation of the world as painting or drawings are.

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