photographs

Photographs are visible manifestations of what is captured when light strikes film or a digital sensor within a camera. Originally photographic prints were created by exposing any of several light-sensitive materials to light, usually passed through a negative. With the recent dominance of digital imaging, prints come increasingly from, well, printers. Likewise the perception of photographs has shifted from the physical manifestation of an image — something you can "hold in your hand" — to a visible manifestation — now, for instance, a photographic image on a computer screen is called a "photograph," as is a still "pulled" from a video. Many people think this practice, and the desire for multimedia content, will mean the eventual end of "still" photographs.

Debate continues about the objective of photographs, especially documentary photographs. Henri-Cartier Bresson famously called it the "decisive moment," and hundreds of bloggers have riffed off that with varying degrees of success. The most popular discussion of photographs is usually about their meaning within a social or political context, and whether they can be "trusted," especially now that digital manipulation is so easy.

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• Brno, Czech Republic

  
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• Man Candy Monday.

  
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• Society for Industrial Archeology 2013

  
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• The Medway barge match, 2013 – an accidental photo gallery

  
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• Cottonwood, Fallen Monolith, and Cliff

  
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• Poland: A Writer’s Vacation

  
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• Ships and the Essex Coast – photos my father took in 1955-7

  
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• Light meaning

  
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  Its fun to shed some light on a subject, especially when the subject is  myself. Great photography is about light and the the human eye. Another kind of photography is about seeing a photograph and thinking about its meaning. “ Do words have  true meaning, I mean, no words are still the same.” A misparaphrase ...
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• Denver Botanic Gardens Mid-May 2013

  
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  I made up this photo collage following a Friday visit to the Denver Botanic Gardens. I’ve always liked to use “toy” cameras such as the Holga and Lubitel but it’s not worth messing around with film anymore, so recently I paid (very little) for a Japanese keychain digital camera that looks like this: As you ...
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