Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Politics of Looking


Representation is important to humans in that we are able to reconstruct a simple scene into something that is beautiful. It may also be used to provoke thought in how we might look at a certain object and how that relates to it’s name, which is nothing more than a word to some people. It’s intriguing to think about what is truly considered artistic photography and what’s not based on if someone set it up or not. Whether or not a photo tells a true story was also and interesting thought, with the idea of truthfulness and trust in the creator of the image. The idea of entrusting photographs to display history is a somewhat interesting idea because any photograph could be staged to recreate a historic event, but we as viewers assume that they aren’t. 

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