Photography is dead...

Jonathan Day- Lecture

The important task of all art is to destroy the equilibrium.

Mediatisation- individual behaviour is shifting
This relates to the notion that behaviour is shifting to emphasise those things that are photographed over those that are not.

Roland Barthes
Susan Sontag

statistics
-3.5 million images uploaded daily to flickr
-58 images uploaded every second on instagram
-300 million photos uploaded everyday on Facebook

Snapchat - temporary social media

Roland Barthes believes that the photograph is a violent media 


Diane Arbus

400 million snapchats sent daily, statistics show the majority of users are women under the age of 25.

Photographs are moments to record against the entropy of time. 
Photographs are communication
Photographs are imagination

"Camera is a sketchbook, spontaneity" - Henri Cartier Bresson

Social media platforms are used for image harvesting.


"Photography has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject" - Duane Michals

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, therefore we should go beyond that.

Mondrian - the art of destruction

Books:
The Afronauts
A period of juvenile prosperity
Raised by wolves
City Fathers, Robert Frank

Mishka Henner questions what happens to the meaning of an image if we remove information from it. 

Social media satisfies our photographic needs whereas books allow genuine and honest exchange. 

Jonathan concluded by suggesting that..

The archive may be defined to follow the physical image library into a dusty and preserved obscurity, within the digital image library holding virtual representations of all of those archived images.

The gallery becomes a conundrum- the desire for the unique fetching old and wet processed images, this then subsumed by simulacra replications of such images using chromogenic printers, a change necessitated by the convince of technology. 


Having attended this lecture, it is clear to me the impact photography has within social media. I feel as though photography can be taken for granted because of this and not appreciated for the art form that it is. I believe it is important to remember that everything we see on a screen is not always what it looks to be. The screen can deceive what the eye sees as natural beauty.