Photographs are teaching us a new visual code. They alter
and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at. The most grandiose result
of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the
whole world in our heads as an anthology of images. Photographs are the
experience captured. Photographs are like miniatures of reality that anyone can
make and acquire. They are published, displayed, blown up, cropped, featured,
used however we like. When put into a book they can be guaranteed longevity if
not immortality, however they can lose there essential quality. Photographs
hold the ability to furnish evidence and display proof. Photographs are also
just as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are. They
can both be just as narrowly selective with their interpretations. The cameras technological
promise from the beginning was to carry out experiences by translation to
image. Photography as art was a result of a reaction to the industrialization
of the photography and its availability to all.
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