Notes from lecture:
- 1839 saw the invention of daguerreotypes - images exposed onto film. The photograph told the truth and was about co-presence - you had to be there!
- In the 20th century photography switched from 'evidence' to 'art'
- Comparing analogue and digital cameras - a 14Gb camera will still not produce as a good a quality as a good negative
- 1889 saw the introduction of hand-held cameras
- Facebook is the largest photo sharing site in the world compared to Flickr which is more suited to amateur - professional photographers
- Flickr is a very social site and encourages photography. It uses tags and comments to encourage communication and offers groups for people with similar photography interests
- Instagram is a very well known and popular free sharing site for amateur photographers. It is an architecture of participation and membership grew 15x in one year!
- Where Flickr is web based - Instagram is mobile based
- Photography is no loner about truth and all photographs are open to manipulation (Leaver, 2012).
Here is a one and a half minute video showing a model being made up with hair, makeup and lighting for a photo shoot then manipulated in Photoshop for a billboard...
no wonder our perception of beauty is distorted!
Reflection:
Is Pinterest the new Napster? Will photo sharers face copyright infringement lawsuits for sharing other people's images on Pinterest? Should we trust the photos we see in today's advertising? I believe the only photos we can trust are the ones we take ourselves!
References:
Leaver, T. (2012) ... Topic 1.5: Photography [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/casterframe.lasso?fid=794620&cnt=true&usr=not-indicated&name=not-indicated
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