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NOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHY

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"I am trying to render the special quality of this hallucination..." - R. Barthes History, culture, evolution, aesthetics, ideas, seminal works, practitioners, poetry. Past, Present and the Future
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"The contingency of photographs confirms that everything is perishable; the arbitrariness of photographic evidence indicates that reality is fundamentally unclassifiable. Reality is summed up in an array of casual fragments - an endlessly alluring, poignantly reductive way of dealing with the world."

- Susan Sontag

We seem to barely hold on to the technologies we create. The moment we unleash it, it runs away and tells US how we should behave instead of the other way around.

Now that we find ourselves face to face with the unreality of Ai and all that it will potentially disrupt, it is even more important to be aware of how powerful images can be.

We are still trying to make sense of photography - the Point Zero - the building blocks that thicken our modern environment.

We are still reeling from the introduction of the internet that has fundamentally changed how the world operates.

Now we are facing the next evolution which will exponentially raise the stakes.

And we seem poorly prepared - it’s shocking to see how people take images that one would think are OBVIOUSLY fake - as reality....gawk over Ai art that is vacuous, saccharine and sentimental.

And I'm a Concept Artist, we specialise in a lot of that. 😅 The Ai is not coming up with this by itself! We created the beast. 😬

But at the very least WE were/are responsible for it, and unable to pass blame to a nebulous algorithm...

Or maybe it's going to free us to do more meaningful things…

Maybe visual literacy courses should start being mandatory in schools.

Lots of maybes…

There are many great writings on images and how we have been dealing with the “crisis of photography” in the age of mechanical and now digital reproduction.

The preface to Guy Debord's "Society of Spectacle" is a quote by Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach - from 1841 - that hits the perfect note.

“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness."

I've been, for a while now, slowly trying to pick out the nuggets from books and share it as part of learning and understanding myself.

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I plan to continue this as long as I can, and if I do stop, it will not be for the lack of material, as the amount of literature on this subject is overwhelming, increasing exponentially as we try to make sense of a world that slowly reconstructs itself into its doppelgänger - that of one vast mirage.

I can’t say it better than the descriptor by Roland Barthes “I am trying to render the special quality of this hallucination”

IMAGE: Stephen Shore

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Street photographer and writer Stephen Leslie takes a detailed, often humorous look at his favourite photographs in a new series of films called Show &Tell. Expect a combination of amazing photography trivia and bad jokes.
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Street photographer and writer Stephen Leslie takes a detailed, often humorous look at his favourite photographs in a new series of films called Show &Tell. Expect a combination of amazing photography trivia and bad jokes.

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The documentary rendezvous for photography lovers. Each month, discover the world of photography thanks to a selection of key documentary films and original, unreleased and exclusive creations. The Darkroom Rumour is available anytime, anywhere in the world,
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Hello

Welcome to any new followers, thank you for your interest. 

You can now also follow an updated version of NoP on Instagram.

Even though it is still far behind this one, it is in a sense more “accurate” as my reference material has grown exponentially since starting this tumblr. For that reason, I am concurrently updating early posts on here while mirroring all the content on Instagram. 

It will take quite a while to catch up on there, so in the meantime, I will be continuing with random photo-related posts on here, before getting back into book-specific notes. 

Have a good day

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