Ideas and Thoughts https://photomail.org/portfolio_category/ideas-and-thoughts/ Discover, Debate, Define, The Art of Photography Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:37:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Power, Democracy and ‘Other’ Women https://photomail.org/online/power-democracy-and-other-women-satish-sharma/ https://photomail.org/online/power-democracy-and-other-women-satish-sharma/#respond Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:45:34 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=4895 Photography, after the Second World War and McCarthyism, was consciously pushed into the sanitised spaces of Art galleries and Museums away from its past as a concerned, conscience-pricking tool. We were told by institutional gatekeepers like the Museum of Modern Art in New York that Photography was only about Itself. It was an Art form that was about navel-gazing photographers and about flattened formalist fields. Photography was not supposed to exist outside its own frame.

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]]> https://photomail.org/online/power-democracy-and-other-women-satish-sharma/feed/ 0 Perception and Photography https://photomail.org/online/perception-and-photography-by-satish-sharma/ https://photomail.org/online/perception-and-photography-by-satish-sharma/#respond Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:53:30 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=4359 The realist discourse of photography believes that photographs capture the world as it is. As scientific, empirical knowledge. It is the Camera’s mechanical nature, which is supposed to give us the unchallenged, unassailable ‘reality’ of photography. It presents us with the image of photography as a mechanized form of perception. 

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]]> https://photomail.org/online/perception-and-photography-by-satish-sharma/feed/ 0 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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]]> https://photomail.org/online/the-real-aesthetic-documentary-noise-david-bate/feed/ 0 The World of Transient Signifiers https://photomail.org/online/the-world-of-transient-signifiers-bipin-balachandran/ https://photomail.org/online/the-world-of-transient-signifiers-bipin-balachandran/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2016 04:56:02 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1182 Right from the invention of photography there has been a common understanding that it reflected the world as such or more exactly it was taken to be so intimately associated with the object depicted. The fin de siècle avant-gardism in art was, among a lot of other things, a reaction to this notion of the ‘photographed reality’. But at the same time one could also remonstrate against this by accentuating the ‘pictorialism vs. straight photography episode’ from the history of photography.

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