It represents a leap into the unknown, as is the entire history of the human race. But the photograph in the 20th century is probably the most graphic photographic representation of this fact, recorded on the physical integrity of film.
This image is not just about superb timing, but the tonal relationship of the composition.
It seems like you're backtracking on your position.
I'm afraid you misunderstand.
I was saying that prints are different from screen images, and that one does create things when they make prints from and through their efforts.
No comment was made about how prints originating from two different sources might differ.
Prints look like prints. They are more than just the image in them. They have physical characteristics in addition to the image included in them. They respond to and are dependent on the light they are viewed with. Some have texture, while others have gloss. They have a physical weight. If made sensitively, they are printed to take advantage of all those physical characteristics, and are printed with them in mind.
Screen images look like screen images - your photography looks pretty well the same as the cat that someone shared with you on social media.
Prints look like prints. They are more than just the image in them. They have physical characteristics in addition to the image included in them. They respond to and are dependent on the light they are viewed with. Some have texture, while others have gloss. They have a physical weight. If made sensitively, they are printed to take advantage of all those physical characteristics, and are printed with them in mind.
Screen images look like screen images - your photography looks pretty well the same as the cat that someone shared with you on social media.
A pig weighed in 15 different ways is still a pig. The image whether viewed in a book on screen or as a print is still the same image.
They're all different instances. So, not a pig weighed 15 different ways but 15 different pigs that all weigh the same.
I rest my case.
I rest my case.
Yes, but isn’t that just visual semantics. A pig weighed in 15 different ways is still a pig. The image whether viewed in a book on screen or as a print is still the same image.
HCB did not come to a Zen moment and said "I most photograph M.L.K.jr"
he was paid...
Bob Henriques’ image depicts Henri Cartier-Bresson pausing, camera in hand, in front of Martin Luther King Jr during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom demonstration in 1957.
one way weighed.
Garry Winogrand: “I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.”
When he said that, of course, he was speaking of prints (or prints reproduced in books.
Experiencing a print is a substantially different thing than experiencing an image on a screen.
Garry Winogrand: “I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.”
When he said that, of course, he was speaking of prints (or prints reproduced in books.
Experiencing a print is a substantially different thing than experiencing an image on a screen.
But liking one over the other is just a personal preference.
An image has no material identity
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