Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Photography as a medium and by definition consists of images created by light. Non light based image manipulation is not photography even though the original image may have been created by light, this is called multimedia. There is nothing at all wrong with multimedia, it is just not photography. Photography need not employ silver based processes, for example there exist palladium and platinum photographic methods. Photography as an expression of reality is based upon the idea that there is a 'direct line of sight' between the scene and image created on film, and direct line of sight between the image rendered on film and the print. The concept that there exists a direct connection between reality and image gives photography a very special place among media. Jonathan Borden > > The final photograph is its own statement. It doesn't matter what the > negative or transparency looked like, unless you are more interested in > forensics, data acquisition or the like versus art. Photographs, of and by > themselves, do not necessarily express reality. > > Godfrey >