Functions of metaphors for Photography
1. The camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.
2. A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened.
3. It is an Event: something worth seeing- therefore worth photographing.
4. Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon-one that’s as automated as possible, ready to spring.
5. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves.
6. A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence.
7. Photographs express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical: they are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality.
8. They give information, they make an inventory, to tell one what there is.
9. Cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive.
10. Act of non intervention, tool of power
11. Photographs are interpretation of the world.
To give knowledge to people to understand what is happening.
It connects to Birkerts project because it does not give any depth to where we might see someone getting beat, but we don’t know why they are being hurt.
The importance of photography to understanding what is happening.
By Jason, Kyle, Karen
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