Photography With Natalie

Flickr: sharing photos leads to collective perspectives, experiences and memory 'sharing' - exchanging views in order to have the same viewpoint - same perspective on the world Motto: "Share your photos. Watch the world." - sharing pictures leads to a collective experience. Individuals upload photographs documenting their lives - become part of a social community. This shapes how they watch the world. Flickr functions as a collective memory. It invites users to contribute photos, comments and information Culture of connectivity: a culture where perspectives, expressions, experiences and productions are increasingly mediated by social media sites 3 concepts: The technological unconscious Connectivity instead of collectivity The continuous present of the mediatized age Two theoretical approaches: socio-technical ensembles affordances "Some researches have lauded Flickr's potential as a platform for individuals to develop and shape their a...

'Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not what we see.' (Barthes, 1980: 6) 'Light - both natural and artificial - can thus be perceived as a custodian of truth. Seeing has become a cultural form of believing.' (Thomas 1996: 148) Photography became the means for which to observe the world, to describe its properties, and most importantly, to prove things existed within the relationship of space and time. New technologies have fundamentally transformed the way photographic images are produced as well as perceived. Digital photography is a medium that 'privileges fragmentation.' (Mitchel 1992:8)  Digital photography has so deeply penetrated current image culture. Lev Manovich indicates that what is lost however, is not realism, but only photographic realism. 'Manipulation is integral to photography." (Rosler 1991: 53) (source: Digital photography and the question of realism, Antonia Bard...

Digital technology allows for greater ease in editing than analog photography, because it transforms photographs from objects into data. Marshal McLuhan - "the medium is the message" --> "medium" is any extension of the human senses. McLuhan's "message" explains the way a new medium affects a culture, "for the 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs." Digital technology allows for greater ease in editing than analog photography, because it transforms photographs from objects into data. Digital photography challenges the historical belief that photography is representative of reality. Roland Barthes describes the relationship between object and image and time as "that-has-been" Photographs are perceived to represent reality in their reference to a subject in time Digital images are translated into code The process of reading photographs ...

female seen as a passive object of adoration or the gaze and sometimes seen as a castrating bitch meat is murder the body seen as a crucial site for the exercise of power and pleasure with respect to sex, gender and identity "fashion photography plays with our own desires and fears and appreciates how the discursive body appears" (Barthes 1990: 257) "Fashion magazines come on rather like pornography; they indulge the desire of the "reader" who looks at pictures, to be each perfect being reflected in the pages, while simultaneously engaging erotically with a femininity (and increasingly a masculinity) that is constantly being redefined." (Wilson, Elizabeth 1985: 158) We live at a time when we are simultaneously encouraged to take care of our bodies through dieting or exercise while we are offered the opportunity for uninterrupted consumption through fast-food multinationals like McDonald's and late-night supermarkets. "Capital accum...

representation  is the meaning through language 2 systems of representation 'system': objects, people and events are correlated with a set of concepts or mental representations which are carried around in our heads how we might form concepts for things we can perceive - people or material objects Meaning depends on the relationship between things in the world - people, objects and events, real or fictional - and the conceptual system, which can operate as mental representations of them we 'belong to the same culture': we interpret the world in roughly similar ways, we are able to build up a shared culture of meanings and thus construct a social world which we inhabit together. --> 'culture' sometimes defined in terms of 'shared meanings or shared conceptual maps' The meaning is constructed by the system of representation. It is constructed and fixed by the code, which sets up the correlation between our conceptual system and our language sys...

Cultural imaginaries: a theory that came from different concepts in Latin America imagined community  It was put forth by Stuart Hall The meanings of photographs are not fixed and can depend on the background of the person cultural landscape : consisted of dual framework - objective (original meanings) vs subjective (interpretations) Landscape photography captures nature and man-made features  source: google images Esteban Pastorino Diaz Takes photos from a bird's eye point of view and focuses on specific points conceptualisation source: google images He reflects the work of Fransisco Salamone (architecture) Lauren Marsolier perceptual photography exploring senses rather than the immediately visible images present mental landscape Mishka Henner photos that pre-existed on the Internet images from Google Earth source: google images Misha takes photo from Google Earth but doesn't show the person's face. ...