Reading Response: After Photography by Fred Ritchin
Chapters: preface - 2
In the first few chapters Ritchin outlines the main characteristics of the analog to digital shift. Digital technology removes the age-long function of the photograph as a document. Instead in Ritchin opinion, digital opens up a new range of possibilities, which shift photographic value from the appreciation of a photo's singular, inherent qualities to its connectivity with a series of photos or informational resources.
Ritchin also brings up, in chapter two, the dealings with the common practice of photographic manipulation, extensively used to ‘correct,’ and enhancing or creating a totally new composition to the original image. Ritchin identifies the reduction of photographer's autonomy in favor of editing control and the erasure of the photograph's ambiguity in order to safeguard the response of that single, clear and intended meaning.
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