Vilem Flusser: "Towards a Philosophy of Photography"
Images are two-dimensional areas in which they
reduce time and space into a simplistic form. Our eyes are then able to intake
the information of the image by scanning over the surface. However, we are able
to interpret these images in multiple meanings.
It is at this point that the images can
become screens for humans to project themselves into. At the same time, the
images illustrate texts that are the written context of the image in order to
comprehend both expressions of ideas and thoughts. These texts can take away
the so called “magical” meanings and emotions much like the technical images.
Technical
images, such as photographs, can be illustrated with magic by the texts that
are paired with them. These images don’t have a set story until the text is
written to be paired with them. But these images can be repeated endlessly for
memories in every aspect of life. [If
it is the intention of writing to mediate between human beings and their
images, it can also obscure images instead of representing them. We can’t
decode our texts anymore, or reconstruct the signified images.]
All of
these images can now be depicted through the use of a camera. All of the
possible meaning can be created through the camera alone. But to a point, the
photographers (the operator) tries to discover other ways in which the real
world has not been viewed through the one compressed flat view. This is a first
in which the operator merges with the device; thus the need to call the unity
functionaries. The photographer controls the camera even though they do not
know what is going on inside of the camera by the design of the camera’s
exterior. I don’t think that being able to control something without knowing
the ins and outs of the object is fully possible. You will achieve low outcomes
by doing so. And yet, by working and manipulating you learning the molding
process in which you create and how the device is created.
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