For the report I will look at how photography have changed from analogue/film to digital and how nowadays everyone is a photographer in their own way. Digitalisation of photography has allowed blurring the boundary of amateur and professional photography in certain areas. I will investigate on brief history about photography and how it developed until now and then focus on the digitalisation of photography for the key theme of the report.
I have researched books that I can reference for the report such as, chapter 6 Photography in the age of electronic imaging – Photography a Critical Introduction by Liz Wells, chapter 5 Transforming Media: Painting, Photography, and Digital Imagery – Transforming Images by Barbara E.Savedoff. I will look at the way it has changed through history and briefly compare film and digital and mention about how film is harder to get access than digital now (and more expensive to use).
For the key theme of the report I will reference, chapter 7 And God Created Photoshop: Digital Technologies, Creative Mastery and aesthetic Angst – The Imagery Factory by Paul Frosh and an article called ‘The Authentic Amateur and the Democracy of Collection Photographs in the Photography & Culture magazine March 2009.
I will investigate on how the use of computer and internet has made photography more accessible for the public and how it has become an essential part of our living (e.g. mobile phone camera, digital camera, facebook, blog, flickr etc). Also mentioning about how photographs and albums used to be stored as a real objects but now most of it is stored digitally. Leading on from this I will research on Adobe (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator etc) and how it has influenced in Photography and also how it has effected the Design industry. I will talk the pros and cons or I will have overall view of the digitalised and mass usage of photography in modern days.
Hyejee
Hi Hyejee - check out this blog entry:
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On the coming reality of stills sourced from video
Clayton Cubitt: I think photography is moving towards seamlessness. The future of photography won’t be about capturing a decisive moment by timing a shot perfectly. Cameras will capture everything – thirty or sixty frames per second. Then you choose. Like a DVR for life.
Tokion Magazine: Doesn’t that sound like cheating?
Clayton Cubitt: If you think a photographer’s creativity comes from their shutter finger, then it’s cheating. But if you think the creativity comes from the setup, the perspective, from the editing and the craft, then I think it’s no big deal.
Related: A Photo Editor, Industrial Color Helps Photographers Shoot The RED One
cheerio, drn
Also - it would be very much worth tracking down a copy of the BBC series The Genuis of Photography: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Genius-of-Photography-DVD/dp/B001VIR81E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1247071645&sr=8-1
ReplyDeleteand these books:
The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore published by Phaidon
How We Are - Photographing Britian from the 1840s to the present by Val Williams and Susan Bright published by Tate
there is a great exhibition at the photographers gallery that will start on the 17th of July (http://www.photonet.org.uk/), it's a really nice gallery especially now that they moved to oxford circus. they also have a really good bookshop and some talks and events...worth checking out!
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I think your research will be very interesting, the subject is for sure. I came to think of this book I have but surely you can find it in the library,
ReplyDeleteThe Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton. It's a Thames and Hudson book from 2007
Martina