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what do you do with the illusions you make, and do you even suggest that they might not be "real"
even straight forward documentary photography isn't really what's there.
while it can be called evidence or and artifact it isn't, its just an illusion, a reflection, a light-shadow.
its not the kind of illusion that vanishes ( but it really is ) it can't reappear
somewhere else ( but it can ) and it is more based in "reality" than painting and drawing
( not really ) ... color negatives or diapositives aren't true to life, black and white images even less
with the ephemeral quality the materials we are all fooling ourselves with it all just like chalk on the sidewalk ?
what do you do with the illusions you make, and do you even suggest that they might not be "real"
Some Zen understanding is the only solution on this, and I don't mean reading about it in a book either.
OP...Overthinker...Just press the button.
If you can't shoot anything worthwhile then of course do the second best thing...write about it like Sontag did.
While 'clicking' may not be perfect, it is the best we got unless you wish to shoot video.
All, or most, photos are real images of what was. This illusion crap is just that... Sorry, that is my simple mind talking.
Right. Everything out there, and in there, is an illusion. That's the first thing I learned in art. In fact, there is no in there or out there. Nothing we perceive w/ our senses is really, truthfully correct or real, and nothing is really as we see it, hear it, smell it, etc. It's simply our own personal idea of what is "real" at that particular moment, and that changes depending on how our mind is at that instant in that particular situation. Nothing exists on it's own by itself. Everything is in relationship to everything else. It's all one, which is not to say it's all the same thing. Everything is in a state of inter being. When we have a consensus of agreement, then we call that real, and for practical purposes it is. But, it's not. It's not that it's really like it seems, or really not what it seems, it's just that it's not, not what it seems. Some Zen understanding is the only solution on this, and I don't mean reading about it in a book either. Most of what we call real or truth is merely cultural conditioning.
If all colors are dependent on light, what color is something when there is no light? What is the sound of one hand clapping? It's this.....
There is absolutely no possible way to truthfully know what anything anywhere is. Forget that stuff. That fact really, really bothers a lot of people and brings out anger, confrontation, conflict, etc.
We form consensuses in order to communicate w/ others, but that doesn't mean what we are communicating is the "truth". It's an agreed upon truth. It's not empirical. Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth. Information, knowledge, wisdom....that's empirical. Truth is something set aside from that, and you can't get there from an empirical start.
That's the easiest way to look at it, in a negatively expressed manner. Describing things as they are NOT is usually the best way to go. Reality is not dualistic, and the minute that way of thinking started (which works for a lot of stuff, but not for everything) things went downhill and in the wrong direction.
http://www.101zenstories.com/
hi drew
they are a reflection of what was, maybe, but the reflection is just that, a reflection, not the actual thing.
it is filtered through a lens which distorts, omits or enhances reality depending on the type of lens and field of view
( its not hard to depict a mob of 6 people with a certain perspective and lens ) the chemical rays of light ( thanks maris ) react with materials and then the reflection on the paper is converted to something else. i am somewhat color blind so my color pallet is
not the same as someone else's ... black and white of a colorful scene alters reality again, not to mention
contrast enhancement, burning, dodging, bleaching, toning &c ... maybe a photograph is based on reality of what might have been
but it isn't any reality i have ever seen ...
although a friend of mine's father has no color vision, he only sees in black and white, so maybe black and white images
are closer to his reality ... but still they aren't real .
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hi drew
they are a reflection of what was, maybe, but the reflection is just that, a reflection, not the actual thing.
it is filtered through a lens which distorts, omits or enhances reality depending on the type of lens and field of view
( its not hard to depict a mob of 6 people with a certain perspective and lens ) the chemical rays of light ( thanks maris ) react with materials and then the reflection on the paper is converted to something else. i am somewhat color blind so my color pallet is
not the same as someone else's ... black and white of a colorful scene alters reality again, not to mention
contrast enhancement, burning, dodging, bleaching, toning &c ... maybe a photograph is based on reality of what might have been
but it isn't any reality i have ever seen ...
although a friend of mine's father has no color vision, he only sees in black and white, so maybe black and white images
are closer to his reality ... but still they aren't real .
.
Only God is Truth.
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