David Bate https://photomail.org/portfolio_category/david-bate/ Discover, Debate, Define, The Art of Photography Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:23:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 The Real Aesthetic: Documentary Noise https://photomail.org/online/the-real-aesthetic-documentary-noise-david-bate/ https://photomail.org/online/the-real-aesthetic-documentary-noise-david-bate/#respond Sun, 02 Jul 2017 07:09:22 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=3819 The idea of ‘documentary’ goes to the heart of the invention of photography. Historically distinct from painting, the iconic-index-symbol structure of photographs quickly impressed with its capacity to ‘document’ things, a function which today, in an age of photo-copiers and electronic machines that reproduce instantly, is so obvious that it seems banal to even mention it here.

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