chuc k
(K=34) - Comment Date 11/29/2001
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Photography is art. With art, the thoughts that are a part of the experience come from the viewer. Yesterday I attended a photographic exhibit at the Art Museum in Cincinnati. Its a good show with examples from many different photographers, from Fox Talbot, to Cindy Sherman and beyond. Since I had just come from my teaching job (7th grade music) I saw a great deal of Kafka in all the pictures. Who knows, if I go back on Saturday I may see John Lennon.
As for math in photography, I couldn't say. As a musician and photographer I know that I see and hear all things differently from one day to the next. But all my life the number 7 (for instance) has been the same.
Please relax and enjoy life.
chuck k
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Justin Case
(K=171) - Comment Date 11/30/2001
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Sometimes it feels like an essay question on a blue book exam. Compare and contrast the use of photography in the Balkans with the use of photography during a. Boer War,b. WWI in the western front, c. military campaign in Afghanistan. In your answer, carefully show the influence of late 19th and early twentieth century Existential European philosophy on the depiction of nationalist military ethos in Europe and the Middle East. Give at least two examples .. Sometimes it just feels like,well, indigestion. Burp.:-)
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James Chinn
(K=60) - Comment Date 11/30/2001
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If you are addressing philosophy in the context of the title of the forum, we are discussing the general principles of a field of knowledge being the science and practice of photography. In reference to Philosophy in the context of the study of principles that govern thought, conduct and perceptions of reality, photography is a way for the photographer to communicate his personal philosophy of the world around him. I would venture that not only can one read into a photograph the ideas of many different thinkers, but photographers mirror these different concepts in their photographs.
Several years ago in London I saw an exhibition of Soviet era photography, two different sets of prints. One set was produced by phtographers working for the Party, the other set by "independent" photographers. The official state photographs were all about the Marxist struggle and acheivments of the Marxist state. The others were free flowing abstracts and expressive portraits. The Party prints were made to communicate and sell a philosophy, the others while probably not consciously made with a specific philosophy in mind never the less comunicate one.
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james warden
(K=288) - Comment Date 12/1/2001
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WARNING . . . this post is a diversion . . . return to your scheduled programming . . .
look . . . "think" . . . take picture . . . wiggle . . . repeat
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Hil
(K=45) - Comment Date 12/1/2001
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No, no, no! It's what philosophers present the thoughts of HCB? Ralph Gibson? Cindy Sherman? S. Salgado? The pictures are there. Where are the equivalent thousand words? On second thought, I can't bear the prattle of critics and academics. Withdraw the last.
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Pico
(K=944) - Comment Date 12/1/2001
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How are logic, mathemtatics or linguistics related to philosophy? Answer: however you wish to make them. The same is true for photography.
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