Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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.