[HN Gopher] Unintended Consequences of Photography
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       Unintended Consequences of Photography
        
       Author : ohjeez
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-09-10 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | antiterra wrote:
       | > the handful of men who invented photography -- only wanted to
       | capture images from light reflected on a solid surface
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       | There's absolutely no need to portray someone like Daguerre as
       | merely a uninspired technician. I'm genuinely baffled why this is
       | the narrative tack the author took.
       | 
       | From wikipedia:
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       | > Louis Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise,
       | France. He was apprenticed in architecture, theatre design, and
       | panoramic painting to Pierre Prevost, the first French panorama
       | painter. Exceedingly adept at his skill of theatrical illusion,
       | he became a celebrated designer for the theatre, and later came
       | to invent the diorama, which opened in Paris in July 1822.
        
         | wussboy wrote:
         | Thanks for this "other side". I'm a technician (I build bots!)
         | but I like to think there is a sense of art to what I do.
        
       | cratermoon wrote:
       | I can't believe they didn't cite the 1890 Harvard Law Review
       | article, by Louis Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren, "The Right to
       | Privacy" where the future Supreme Court Justice wrote,
       | ""Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded
       | the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous
       | mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that
       | "what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the
       | house-tops.""[1]
       | 
       | 1 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
        
       | k__ wrote:
       | I visited an exhibition about photography and the third Reich.
       | Very interesting.
       | 
       | The new medium gave the illusion of capturing reality, because it
       | looked much more realistic than paintings. But in the end it
       | suffered the same biases.
        
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