User:Janis Klimanovs/essay outline draft

This essay will focus on questions which raise my interest:

How and why the amount of photographic information incredibly increased around us?

How technology influences globalization in photography?

How is the new photographic technology influencing consumers?

Does new technology in photography let us make better photographs?

Is photography drowned in the digital ocean of mass culture reproduced mediocrity?

+ As the new millennium dawned it became increasingly clear that digital technology, far from being implicated in photography’s demise, was being harnessed to the production of more, not less, ‘photography’. Lister (p.252)

+ The possibility of digitizing and the development of technologies allows us to transmit and exchange information on a larger scale than one could imagine before.

+ Technologies are not made without a purpose, it is the world that has the non stoppable need for better technologies all the time. Bull (p.6)

+ People are sharing more and more ideas than ever before because of the technological possibilities that have become easily available and understandable.

+ It is the time of hype and backlash when everybody wants to sort of do something innovative creative because all the tools are there. It is just the question of having good ideas.

Theory of photography.

Photography would never even have been invented without theories of chemistry, geometry and optics (and theory of light). Of course, one does not necessarily need to ‘learn’ all those theories these days since they are now already built into the photographic apparatus itself. However, understanding the consequence of those theories (geometry, light and optics) on the use of a camera will certainly help to attain control over the medium. Bate (p.25)

Provisional Bibliography

Tagg, J. (1988). The Burden of Representation. Essays on Photographies and Histories. Hampshire and London, The Macmillan Press Ltd: 34-59.

Benjamin, W. (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Bate, D. (2009). Photography: the key concepts. MPG Books Group. UK

Bull, S. (2010) Photography. Taylor & Francis Group. UK

Lister, M. (2007). A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 13 (3), 251-274.

Skillset. (2008a). Profile of the photo imaging sector. UK. A report retrieved from: http://www.skillset.org/uploads/pdf/asset_12220.pdf?3

Cinematography

Dworsky, D. & Köhler, V. (2010) Press Pause Play