The Curious Image

     
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The procedure of image making with the new digital technologies has made image processes more possible in photography. The idea of an image being a material part of ourselves is not far from the truth I believe since it has a piece of our history. I mean it won't take your soul but it's a small moment that is a part of your life. However, an image is not the reality, it's only showing a fragment of that moment in reality. Then again, an image can be staged.
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      Images also seem to be a way to seek proof for a certain experience, but also dig out an exotic desire. A photograph is an invention of memory; our minds take pictures and that is what creates memory then a photograph is physical replacement. The camera can also tell us a story with documented photographs. For example, photos from Vietnam or a photo of someone's last moments. Photos usually fulfill human curiosity of such painful events.
      There are laws to photography. Private areas such as inside someones home needs permission to take photographs. Public places, photographers have the freedom to shoot whatever they want that includes paparazzi. There is also differences between art and documentation in photography yet they always collide. Consumption is what drives photographs to be made in specific ways, leading back to people and their curiosity.

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- Aubrey Zaragoza

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