VCC101H5 Lecture Notes - O. J. Simpson, Kodak, Portrait Photography
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The oj simpson trial: mug shot on the time magazine of oj simpson has been wakened, time magazine did this in order to follow the old code: they wanted to create a. The myth of photographic realism: photography is truth; the cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. Godard: photography altered contemporary ideas about representing and documenting realist, fine art and commercial applications, photography was a rapid development from french, british and american inventors and photographers. It was a fascinating technology for commercial uses, and became easier as time passed. How truthful are photographs: that is- given photography"s trusted technological ability to capture and store images of reality, aren"t photographs simply a neutral record of reality, we can never declare that photography is a neutral record of reality. The myth of photographic truth: photographs are not merely truthful in 2 ways, photographs are representations, just like paintings.