Sun shining through Door Kitchen on the Back Wall in the Kitchen

On Photography

Draft: Photo taking

Reality so overwhelming and all-encompassing that

‘Most tourists feel compelled to put the camera between themselves and whatever is remarkable that they encounter. Unsure of other responses, they take a picture. This gives shape to experience: stop, take a photograph, and move on. The method especially appeals to people handicapped by a ruthless work ethic—Germans, Japanese, and Americans‘. (pg. 10).

Plato’s Cage

From Three dimensional Space and One dimensional Time, to two dimensional Digital Photo.

Reality – as it presents itself to us in moving events – has to be fixated and framed via a digital sensor in a picture that may be shown on a screen or printed on Photo Paper.

surrounding outside view and details lost.

Photo showing an example of 'Plato's Cave' by Sun shining through Kitchen Door on the Kitchen Wall showing shadows of objects in the Middle.
69 mm | f/2.4 | 1/70s | ISO 100 | S23 Ultra | 2025-01-10 16:32

Framing

‘Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire‘. (pg. 4).

Notes:

  1. Sontag, Susan, On Photography. New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1978, p.