CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Photojournalism, Paparazzi, Nuclear Family
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To photograph is to appropriate (to take something) the thing being photographed. Auditorium from abandoned detroit high school, found pictures from when students were there, you feel like you can possess that moment. Active consent, obama"s daughter posting a normal teenager type picture was depicted as bad because it was the president"s daughter. While a painting or prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency . When we read something, we are aware that this is from someone"s perception, different interpretation. Multi-generation under one roof model in decline. There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera . Take possession of that moment, thats why its aggressive. They want to know what it looks like, take pictures, look at other people"s random picture of famous things with their perspective. What if you are just a photo subject, like paparazzi to celebrities.
