Well... A recording it is, but more than that. A mere recording would IMO be a total 3 dimentional copy or clone of the real thing, which is of cource not possible. I guess a recording is for your own use - to record, to remember, to list etc. facts that you need for later work. At the very moment you SHOW the image to someone, it becomes communication or at least a part of a communicating a message to someone.
I think that an objective, impartial etc. recording does not really exist. There's always the photographers point of view (the eyes of the beholder), which will influence the result - the character and angle of the "recording". Two newspapers can photograph (record) the same event - and finally come out with totally different stories! Which of those is the recording - which is the statement/opinion? A statement or recording can be more or less creative or intelligent, more or less objective/subjective. But it's still a statement. I once photographed an industtrial site for work. I came back with beautiful images, showing flowers and trees growing at the site. Other planners might have returned with photographs showing polution, derelict buildings, pot holes in the road etc. Which one is the recording? Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Bob W Sendt: 13. juli 2006 00:24 Til: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Emne: RE: Bad taste it all depends on whether you think the camera is a picture-making tool, or a recording device. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jens Bladt > Sent: 12 July 2006 23:16 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: Bad taste > > To me: > All images are abstractions (of reality or imaginations) - it > IS NOT real > life. > So, I don't see anything wrong in making images with all kind > of tools, > bruches, chalk, coal, film, CCD's, computers etc. > Adding or subtracting to/from "the real thing" is a statement. Images > without a statement are poor communication. > Making images is communicating - like using a language. > > Nevertheless - IO have been trying to redo the effect-iamge > in a larger > format. No luck. The effect "dies" when I use more pixels. > So I just enlarged the firt one. > I put it here (buttom of the page): > http://www.jensbladt.dk/Modelnight/Pernille-site.html > > I'd like to have it printed really big. > I think I'm beginn to understand what Andy Warhol did to > Marilyn Monroe - > not that ther'es any comparison to my photgraph at all ;-l) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/385 - Release Date: 07/11/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/385 - Release Date: 07/11/2006 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
