Photography-Documenting 'reality'
Some things to ponder-
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"Post-Documentary?" Essay by MarthaRosler
"...documentary .... is undergoing profound challenges from multiple sources, on social, political, and ethical grounds. Critiques of documentary have centered on questions of the image and its relationship to a phenomenologically present visual reality; denigration of its metonymic adequacy in relation to the situation it depicts; and doubt about the ability of any image of a visual field to convey lived experience, custom, tradition, or history. Postcolonial discourses have undermined the authorial voice of the photographic image, the photographer, and the cultural milieu in which the image is inserted. "
"These challenges, which radically undermine photography's claim to a unique capacity to offer direct insight into the real and to offer up structural truths about power differentials in society, have produced something of a crisis among artists and intellectuals and troubling some in journalism and the legal professions, if not others in the wider audience. "
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"Post-Documentary?" Essay by MarthaRosler
"...documentary .... is undergoing profound challenges from multiple sources, on social, political, and ethical grounds. Critiques of documentary have centered on questions of the image and its relationship to a phenomenologically present visual reality; denigration of its metonymic adequacy in relation to the situation it depicts; and doubt about the ability of any image of a visual field to convey lived experience, custom, tradition, or history. Postcolonial discourses have undermined the authorial voice of the photographic image, the photographer, and the cultural milieu in which the image is inserted. "
"These challenges, which radically undermine photography's claim to a unique capacity to offer direct insight into the real and to offer up structural truths about power differentials in society, have produced something of a crisis among artists and intellectuals and troubling some in journalism and the legal professions, if not others in the wider audience. "
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posted by mufflevski at 10/09/2005
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