Photography is timeless - it is a captured moment, a moment that our eyes would not see naturally. We could have created cameras differently to not create realistic-looking images. We have chosen to create our sensors and lenses to produce images that are as close to what our eyes sees as possible. We make photographic images look real - to us. “The photograph is related to its subject or referent by physical contiguity; the camera must be present to its subject; one cannot exist without the other one being there too.” The image can only perhaps be considered to be at least partly representative of reality at that moment when the shutter is released. Before and after that moment the image does not represent reality. There is an overlapping circle of reality - the individual’s reality is objective to themselves, but to any other person it is subjective. So how a photographer captures or makes an image is always completely open to interpretation by any viewer - which will depend on their own context to interpret a photo.
By Stephanie Morris, Liz Harding, Vas Paraskevopoulos and Yana Amur
Bibliography:
Scott, C 1999, The Spoken Image - Photography and Language, Reaktion Books, London
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