DESMA 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cognitive Load, E-Selectin, P. Jurgenson
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L e c t u r e 1 4. People are using images to communicate, it is talk- ing. The professional industry of photography can be a lit- tle distracting from that. Movement from the camera obscura (the image isn"t set) to the daguerreotype. The substance, the ends and the means (the end becomes that photographic object) What is happening with social media now is that the object becomes the means of communication, it is no longer the end (the object in the photo is no longer that important, with snapchat images disap- pear) Today photography is something more social and communicative, the reason you use your camera is to produce a social good not to follow the rule of thirds. A sel e is not a self-portrait, it is wrong to judge social photography on the merits of artistic photography.
