“We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of professionals. We valued it for what it could tell us about the details of people's daily lives.” PeopleLongPhotographyDetailsDaily LifeArbitrarySnapshots 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
“I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.” ThinkingNeededPhotographySellsHistoricalMediumsShockSubjectiveAlways BelievePhotojournalism 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
