Real Photography

Sutton, D.

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“…The accessibility of the technology that has evolved to capture the digital photograph has turned its function from one of capturing a memory of a loved one or memorialisation, to one that is more akin to capturing everyday experience, even at its most mundane. Sutton (2007) describes this connection between the photograph and memory as, "…brittle in explaining the proliferation of "objectless photography, such as that represented by the digital photograph and its emerging culture". However, Batchen (2004) points out, the act of remembering someone is also about the positioning of oneself, about the, "…affirmation of one's own place in space and time, about establishing oneself within a social and historical network of relationships.…”

Section: Photographic Theory: the Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Photograph as a Cultural Arbitrator in the Design of Virtual Learning Environments for Children and Young People

Jones

Hall

2011

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Digital technology, the Internet and mobile communication have made picture taking and sharing ubiquitous. The photograph with its long track record as a representational artefact now portrays individuals in ever broader contexts. The once distinctive practice of the snapshot aesthetic in capturing the banal and everyday has become culturally pervasive and children are key creators, producers and sharers of digital photographs. Designers of innovative digital media for children and young people face real problems in establishing requirements. Early experiments using children's photographs to inspire design and game evaluation methods led to tangible improvements in the user experience. To date however, the benefits of a robust discourse on the vernacular photograph in this context have come secondary to the pragmatics of design. This paper will explore the role of the photograph as a cultural arbitrator in the design of innovative software for personal and social education. It will examine the construct of the photographic index and its changing value in dialogue associated with digital images; will consider how this inherently ambiguous dimension of human experience can be investigated to better appreciate children's affective and cognitive responses to photographs in design contexts and will discuss the benefits and challenges of harnessing the photograph as a cultural arbitrator.

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Section: Photographic Theory: the Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%