“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.” WorldNeedsMayShowsAttentionDemandHappeningsPhotographVersionsViewersPosing Author:Fred Ritchin
“In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.” IfsMayDoeFactsFormPhotographyEvidenceProfoundSymbolsTruthfulQuestionableUnderminingPictorial 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
