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“I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?”

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Uta Barth

Uta Barth is a German-born American photographer known for her unique style and capturing the essence of everyday life. Her work often presents in a minimalist form, emphasizing the changes of light and color. Barth's contributions to the art world have been widely recognized, and her photographic techniques have had a significant impact on the development of contemporary photography. more

“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.”

Has Beens Stills Important Seems Process Differences Known Practice Photography Capable Claims Digital Abandon Rhetoric Objectivity Fabrication Imaging

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.”

Ifs World Firsts Looks Two Order Consciousness Window Photograph Outside World Gazing

Author:Geoffrey Batchen

“[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.”

Mean Made Communication Speech Digital Printed Ephemeral Snapshots Means Of Communication

Author:Geoffrey Batchen

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