The material of a photograph

What’s the material of a photograph? Is light a matter? or it’s a form of energy? What about darkness? The negative of light as the matter of a photograph?

Is it too much to imagine a very subtle kind of photograph with almost no light? or is it a ‘blasphemy’ just to think of a photograph in terms of its shadows and dark areas per se?

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Primitive Figures

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A Kid at The Museum

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Indonesia in Frames

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the social function of photograph

Reading this piece of historical text on photography makes me realise one of the most basic function of photography; the social function. Most of the time I’m not being aware of this kind of social function. At times I think that... Continue →