A photograph arrests the flux, it can select a moment and lock it in the frame. What we then see is a sample from an infinite time frame, which represents a culture, living out there, but which is itself an example of that culture and its values and practices.
the problem of the admixture of aesthetic ’goodness’ continues, bc the person looking at the picture will, at some level, again appreciate the beauty. And that beauty waylays us.
the problem of the admixture of aesthetic ’goodness’ continues, bc the person looking at the picture will, at some level, again appreciate the beauty. And that beauty waylays us.
It seems that principles of good composition are always used, naturally and, perhaps, unknowingly. For the picture to look ‘good’, therefore, the aesthetic component is included.
It seems that principles of good composition are always used, naturally and, perhaps, unknowingly. For the picture to look ‘good’, therefore, the aesthetic component is included.
It is simply not sensible to suggest that we can explain the whole spectrum of photography - technics, creativity, humanism - as a form or a symptom of the perversion of scoptophilia.