Fotoğraf-Çerçevedeki Gizem

Everything seen can be photographed and reproduced infinitely, giving different meanings in different contexts. A news photograph that appeared in the daily newspaper can later be exhibited on the wall of a museum. However, even though the visual content does not change, it will no longer be seen as news, but will be described and seen from a historical, sociological or artistic perspective. Moreover, photographs that never existed are described in novels and seen as the author wishes. Description is required to complete the meaning of a photograph and to interpret the photograph visually. The one who will make the description is the person looking at the photo. It is the act of description that enables the act of seeing.

The camera can be compared to the eye. But the camera does not think. Everything that has to do with judging, selecting, arranging, including, excluding and capturing has to happen through the photographer. Because of the separation between the photographer, who thinks and sees, and the camera, which is the recording tool, it is more difficult for the person looking at the photograph to describe any photographer as creative than it is to characterize those who deal with other branches of visual arts.

In this book, which consists of intense thoughts on photography, Price discusses photography from the perspective of history, sociology, semiology and moralism, and examines the use of photography in literary works. Throughout this process, he includes the views of writers and thinkers such as W. Benjamin, S. Sontag, R. Barthes, M. Proust, R. Lowel and R. Musil, and even does not shy away from discussing them in this adventure. Photography - A thought-provoking book on the subject of Mystery in the Environment, both theoretically and practically, that will attract the attention of readers who are not directly interested in photography. It is an extremely special work that stands one step ahead of its counterparts, loaded with information and associations that will deepen our perspective on photographs, which have a great place in our lives.



Number of Pages: 247

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 2004

Number of Pages: 247

Language Turkish