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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Photographs
Selectivity, instantaneity, and credibility are characteristics which distinguish photography
from other picturing media and make our experience of photographs significantly different than our experience of other pictures. Photographs ought to be interpreted by an examination of three types of contextual information: internal, original, and external.
photographies
photographies seeks to construct a new agenda for theorising photography as a heterogeneous medium that is changing in an ever more dynamic relation to all aspects of contemporary culture.
photographies aims to further develop the history and theory of photography, considering new frameworks for thinking and addressing questions arising from the present context of technological, economic, political and cultural change.
Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time
As critics, we imagine that we look upon photography with open eyes, distanced from the visual culture in which the photographic image is still the prime molarity. We forget that there is an abstract machine of culture in which we are an essential part—as photographers, writers, critics, artists, family members. We neglect to look for the ways in which photography as an idea is instrumental to the ways that we live and act, the ways that we see and represent ourselves and others.
Smart Photography
Covers world wide photography news, features, and opinion.

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