Wow!! Finally someone who is making sense!
Andreas Maria Jacobs w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl On 29 Dec 2010, at 19:17, Aditya Mandayam <[email protected]> wrote: > Photography is brutal. A photograph is the end result of a vicious > performing act. > > The vocabulary surrounding a photograph is violent. There are shutters > and filters and bellows; aberrations and distortions; solarizers, > polarizers, sensitizers; developers, fixers, stoppers; these, in > conjunction with those other progeny of the industrial revolution, are > used to shoot subjects, to capture them. > > A darkroom is simply that: a camera obscura. It is at once terrifying > and purposeful in its intent. Film & paper, once exposed to the > tyranny of that which lies without, may not lie naked again until they > have been rehabilitated, until they have recovered to a state deemed > meaningful: an object to be consumed. This process of selection is > exquisite in its sadism; we now have machines that make light of these > macabre methods. > > The earliest foto is a blink. A blink is a preventative mechanism. One > blinks to see better. One blinks to lubricate. A blink is also a > pause. The seeds of photography were sown when we first noticed the > images formed on the inside of eyelids, at once black and pinkorange, > shape-shifting and electric. > > The sneeze came next. Now we had a sound to emulate: the shutter. > > The Eye is King. The Mind is his Queen. > > We now live within that panopoly of apparati the mechanical Eye has > birthed: chortles, sniffles, chuckles, giggles; cracks, queefs, farts, > wheezes; yawns, moans, grimaces, frissons; burps & belches, whispers & > snores. > > http://cixa.org/ephemerides/mame.php > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
