poetry | photography | philosophy
Nothing is done automatically through photography. Good photographs differentiate themselves from all the rest of any other sort principally by being informative – interesting: not boring. It is difficult (if not downright impossible) to take a bad photograph seeing all means are provided, and all means function (quasi-?) automatically. (And in the quagmire of uninformative…
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The number zero is the only true invention. The human, the inventor of the number zero, happens to be a creature (but is not necessarily the sole creature) that can understand the concept of the number zero and its most direct offspring: the ratio scale. With the advent of this remarkable invention, everything could be…
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The photograph cannot be a record of light, the imprint left by “the chemical response to radiant energy” (ROMER 2005: 1). The photograph is the information we define as light. Romer reminds us that the word ‘photography’ means “writing with light” (Ibid. 1). I would suggest a redefinition of the word ‘photography’, one seemingly asymmetrically…
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