Tuesday, March 08, 2005

photographers

Concerning Cosgrove's comment that people believe that photography is memetic and that the photographer is a witness that adds validity to the memetic image - is that really true? Is that photograph of the earth shot from the moon more personalized because an astronaut composed it as opposed to the Hubble telescope images? And today with digital manipulation, does anyone trust the validity of photographic images anymore?

1 comment:

umaysay said...

I think that the the discourses around the photograph have a power to create validity to the photograph. If some social entities drive a discourse on a picture to a certain direction, people may read the same thing as the created discourse from the picture. So, I think that it is important to ask who uses the picture with what purpose.