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Ritchin-Chapter 6

This chapter was super cool to read about. I love the interactivity that takes place in photography these days. Being a digital art major, this stuff is right up my alley. The interactive portrait called portrait one was definitely interesting. I think I would be super weirded out if I had seen this back in the day when this technology was just emerging. It's like talking on Skype with someone for the first time, kinda awkward. He talks about working for The New York Times and having to do all their multimedia work which is way cool. This stuff was so new and different to the world he probably shocked some people. He talks a bit about his projects and work on photo essays and that kind of stuff intrigues me. I find it cool. The content of his work was definitely intense but none-the-less the idea of a essay based off hundreds of pictures fascinates me.

Chapter 4 Response

At the beginning of the chapter Ritchen talks about John Szarkowski and his views on photographers. I found it interesting how he categorized them with the “window” photographer and the “mirror” photographer.  The window photographer viewed photography as a means of expression whereas the mirror photographer viewed photography as a means of exploration.

Then when digital photography came around those categories no longer applied and in replacement came a completely new category called mosaic, which I found quite interesting but complicated at the same time. There are so many more components to digital photography now that it’s hard to categorize it.  Ritchen goes on in the chapter to mainly talks about photography now being linked to other media, such as other images, text and even sounds or video clips! It’s truly crazy the stuff we can get out of a one photograph these days.  They call this new view “hyperphotography”, where an image can be hyper linked to other media. Ritchen talked a bit about the shift of this once delicate image you protected by holding only the edges in fear of smudges to now the digital era of actually being able to view the interior of the image. This is quite fascinating to me! The viewer has the option to view an artist’s work however they want.  As well as each viewer is going to view and interact with it differently, getting different interpretations out of the image.  He compared these photographers to filmmakers, poets and novelists. It’s quite interesting to think about actually.  These photographers have the ability to tell a story to the viewer through a single photograph by interweaving other media into it.

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