http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-7509 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:49:04 +0000 http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-7509 I see what you're saying. You make a good point. I'd never really thought about it. I think that the solution though doesn't have to do with technology or content control so much, but with how societies themselves go about their business. The destructive doubt you talk about arises out of the pervasive cultural climate. If instead of the viewer of an image knowing the photo is authentic knew that the world he or she lived in was authentic, that honesty and authenticity were prized as necessary values everyone is ultimately dependent upon, then the opportunity for fraud that a new technology presents wouldn't cause this problem. The problem exists because the incentive does. I see what you’re saying. You make a good point. I’d never really thought about it. I think that the solution though doesn’t have to do with technology or content control so much, but with how societies themselves go about their business. The destructive doubt you talk about arises out of the pervasive cultural climate. If instead of the viewer of an image knowing the photo is authentic knew that the world he or she lived in was authentic, that honesty and authenticity were prized as necessary values everyone is ultimately dependent upon, then the opportunity for fraud that a new technology presents wouldn’t cause this problem. The problem exists because the incentive does.

]]> http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-2957 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:53:10 +0000 http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-2957 you need to take photos OFF this page that is inapropiate to young teens and children.they should not be able to witness this until they get older. you need to take photos OFF this page that is inapropiate to young teens and children.they should not be able to witness this until they get older.

]]> http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-1191 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:43:33 +0000 http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-1191 [...] Photography is dead - seeing has never been believing. Photo manipulation has been around a lot longer than digital photography has. Interesting read however. [...] […] Photography is dead - seeing has never been believing. Photo manipulation has been around a lot longer than digital photography has. Interesting read however. […]

]]> http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-24 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:21:33 +0000 http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/photography-is-dead/#comment-24 [...] The advent of photography in the mid 19th century changed everything — meaning that it changed truth in a fundamental way, very much more so than any other representational art had until then. Try to imagine what it must have been like for humans when there simply were no visual “duplicates” in the world. Whatever your eyes saw, you knew you were seeing it because it was there. There was never any occasion to disregard something you were looking at because it “wasn’t really happening”. [...] […] The advent of photography in the mid 19th century changed everything — meaning that it changed truth in a fundamental way, very much more so than any other representational art had until then. Try to imagine what it must have been like for humans when there simply were no visual “duplicates” in the world. Whatever your eyes saw, you knew you were seeing it because it was there. There was never any occasion to disregard something you were looking at because it “wasn’t really happening”. […]

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