Friday, 9 December 2011

Mechanical reproduction


If you have a small aperture you will get a faint image
Pinhole camera gives an inverted image. Modelled on and much like the eye.

Robert Rochenburg - Type print

Picture plain - The space between a space and the picture space.
Picture (painting is subjective) - documentary truth (manipulation of photography)
Photograph produces the Aura of a piece of art.

Andy Warhol - Reproduction of a reproduction. 

Simulacrum - a copy without the original.

Picture - models indexicality - they have lives as real people and you get caught up in this. What do they do? Are they a mother, lovely person....

Portrait of Lewis Payne. 1865


He's dying - In the past at the time that the photo was taken
He's dead - In the present

A camera can see things that we can not see. The visible seems invisible (a bullet)

There is a loss of professional status within photography because of increase in technology (Camera, Computer enhancement software) 

Pan option - Seeing all. 
CCTV- Does this change people's behaviour?

Plato's cave - Similar to Matrix. Illusion vs Reality.

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