MCC-UE 1 Study Guide - Flickr, Kitsch
19 Oct 2014
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Transience, collection and the everyday image tangible photo in our everyday life: barthes 1985, bazin 1967 duration, photos are related to death: dead moments and memories, photos embalm time not create eternity, family portraits show the presence of lives halted at a set moment in their. New aesthetic: focus on realism, urbanization, the beauty in: digital photography mundane, decay, kitsch, photographs are no longer perceived as precious and expensive as they were with traditional roll film photography, current sense of disposability and immediacy, photography is now affordable, there are no larger collections that highlight shared interested for certain colors, styles and themes, digital photography is no longer as sad or nostalgic as film photography. It"s considered with an everyday aesthetic of fleeting or malleability: digital images can be easily manipulated, altered or constructed without a real world profilmic object (photoshop, digital photography lacks the traces of material past that was part of traditional photography, rosen 2001.
