Digitalphotography
Fall 2005 Digital and Darkroom Photography
Professor Caroline Savage
What is a photograph?
"To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographers have always manipulated the truth to elicit certain responses. Sometimes, of course, the intent is to deceive, whether digitally through software programs like Photoshop, or by simply positioning the camera in a certain way to include or exclude parts of the picture, or in the darkroom, adjusting the lighting or cropping people in or out of a shot. At other times a transformed image can present a more profound truth than could be captured in a single exposure, just as fiction sometimes conveys more truth than simple reportage. The task for viewers is to question why and how images are made, and in the process uncover the real truth in those images, excerpt by Pedro Meyer.
Mummy in Pakistan in her red dress and a goat and a boy with Father Bride
