Results tagged “aesthetics” from altfotonet

A succinct and thought provoking essay. [A Presentation at first MoMA Photography Forum, February 2010]

[From Paul Graham Archive, The Unreasonable Apple]

From JÖRG M. COLBERG's revamped Weblog, Conscientious

Reminiscent of the Russian Constructivists this mage plays with perception and depth quite nicley

The return of JPG Mag will be warmly received by many serious amateur photographers. I always enjoyed it's philosophy and spirit and know several fellow Melbourne Photographers who had work published in it.

It seems to me that hard copy publications like this and online ones, like altfotonet.org, are a doing a great job in exposing and sharing more and more of the great work being produced 'out there'.

 Is there a connection between  representation and responsibility?

The standard response is yes and the answer is usually given in terms of either the artist being responsible for  the truth of the representation, or the artist being ethically responsible in relation to their audience. In this picture---Close----  by Incognita Nom de Plume the responsibility  would refer to the Spanish culture, the family of the dead,  and to the power of the picture and its  possible diverse interpretations by Flickr members.




The standard response goes against, or is a response to,   the notion of art or photography as a lie, or   just fooling around; or the modernist account of art as representation only being responsible to itself--its own form, genre, necessity, etc.  

It is not just the artists who produces the representations who have responsibility ---we, the interpreters of the picture,  have responsibility as well, since our interpretations and the way we frame the image in discourse, is also a representation within a network of social relations.