[HN Gopher] Why Do We Believe in Photographs?
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Why Do We Believe in Photographs?
Author : prismatic
Score : 10 points
Date : 2021-04-24 22:50 UTC (1 days ago)
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| zabzonk wrote:
| I don't know about "belief", but one of the most moving
| experiences in my life was when in a darkroom I first developed a
| photograph - the beauty of the glistening image (not of anything
| remotely interesting, or indeed in focus) coming out of the
| developer bath really made me go "wow", and it's a thrill that
| never left me until (for various reasons) I stopped being
| involved in photography.
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| It's bit sad that few, if any, young people today will experience
| darkrooms, fiddling with the enlarger, the smell of the stop
| bath, the irritation of spending a lot of effort and expense
| (silver costs!) on something that looked lovely coming out of the
| developer, but looks pretty crap in harsh daylight.
| psychomugs wrote:
| Within my design research reading group, we often have
| discussions about how to best represent our works, either as
| traditional text-oriented research papers or more visual as
| pictorials. Everything will be a paraphrase of the original work,
| but we always agree that visual mediums are underrepresented and
| somewhat looked down upon as less legitimate. I think visual
| literacy as a complement to textual literacy is the missing
| ingredient; while we're all exposed to analyzing written and
| spoken mediums at some point in our education, seldom are we
| taught how to interpret, question, and synthesize visual mediums.
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