Why would you take a picture of that?

14Nov06

Tom D.
“This fatality (no photograph without something or someone) involves photography in the vast disorder of objects-of all the objects in the world: why choose (why photograph) this object, this moment, rather than some other? Photography is unclassifiable because there is no reason to mark this or that of its occurrences;”
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
By: CaptainQuerty
 
The photograph [...]

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14Nov06

-Beth P.
 
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
– Barthes, Camera Lucida (Pg 4)

I chose the above quote from Camera Lucida because, out of the whole of the novel, this line, barely four pagesin, stuck out in my mind strongest. On [...]

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Double Exposure

09Nov06

“The minute you start saying something, ‘Ah how beautiful! We must photograph it!’ you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, [...]

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Simple to Shock

08Nov06

“Perhaps true, total photography is a pile of fragments of private images against the creased background of massacres and coronations.”
-Italo Calvino in The Adventures of a Photographer.

To photograph a moment/a memory means to single out one single aspect of the experience. This idea of simplifying an experience down to one still-frame worthy of viewing [...]

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Pieces

07Nov06

By Ann C 
“Perhaps true, total photography, he thought, is a pile of fragments of private images, against the creased background of massacres and coronations.”  “Adventures of a Photographer”  (Calvino 186)     
Photo by Katie, Flickr username: At~A~Glance
 

            This picture, Incomplete, relates to several topics that we discussed in class and saw in the readings.  Its caption reminded [...]

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Identity in Photography

07Nov06

“In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.” Barthes Camera Lucida 13

Cosplay is when a person dress up as a character [...]

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Forgetting to Remember

07Nov06

 KevinL
“It is only when they have the photos before their eyes that they seem to take tangible possession of the day spent … Everything else can drown in the unreliable shadow of memory” – Calvino Adventures of a Photographer 177

Photo: Arbron 
It seems that photography has become a crutch for the human memory. With photos we [...]

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Beauty of Photography

06Nov06

“The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow”
~Calvino Adventures of a Photographer 179

This picture is of a flower that most people would deem beautiful if they looked at it. The real question is not whether [...]

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