“Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.” NeedsMadeViewsStreetsSourceCamerasPhotographerBillionsMake SenseEnterpriseGoogleSurveillanceFiltersHybridLegionCuratorPhotojournalismOverabundanceSurveillance Cameras Author:Fred Ritchin
“We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.” PeopleWorldFirstsMadeIdeasStepsInformationPhotographAbandonFirst StepsEntry Author:Fred Ritchin
“The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.” YearsMayMadeMomentsCertainSpaceAchieveSubjectsDramaSceneElementsApproachPhotographyPhotographerPhotographVisualsTime And SpaceDecisive MomentsCartierHenri Cartier Bresson Book:In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world Source: In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world
