Grammar of Photography

 

Broken photography and my Sisterhood

The reduced state of the image is a state in which reality is broken down into units.

Reality is a field of production and produced materials.

The image in miniature is material.

Images are real and material in miniature.

> Barthes

I think Barthes is at the forefront of this Holy Grail War.

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In the material world, images are reality, and reality is the field of production and produced materials. The pixels of the image appear larger than before when compared to the previous particles. The state of the particles trapped in the image is compressed. The compressed original disappears the world from the phenomenon. At this time, we can see that the image is a material that uses the compressed particles as a vanishing point. The history of materials is longer than the history of photography. Photography compresses the history of materials and flattens it. Material products play a role as evidence of a certain event (time).

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Photography is the art of segmentation and synthesis. The human who selects a photograph rescues a scene in the context of the time and events before and after. The continuity of the photograph is constructed by human consciousness. The history of humanity remaining on the surface of consciousness extends human vision.

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Our field of vision is limited. Human beings form groups with one common opinion. The eyes belonging to the group see a different world from the eyes of other groups. When the eyes exchange each other, the world compressed by the field of vision expands. The product of the eyes, or in other words, the substance of the eyes, is the photograph.