Part 5 Viewpoint

Part 5 Viewpoint

The course notes cite a quotation from Flusser (Flusser, 2000) “Ideology is the insistence on a single viewpoint thought to be perfect”

The course notes say “any photograph as defined by a point of view: both in the sense of where the photographer stood to take the photograph, but also as saying something particular about the world that could also be said in a different way, from a different point of view.”

I found this an important concept, one with which on reflection I have been struggling for some time and I think is part of my major motivation to enroll on this course. The suggested dichotomy between “where the photographer stood” and “saying something particular about the world” is at the core of what I want to better understand.

I have found over the years that it is easy to get preoccupied with the technical side of photography, and once I felt I was reasonably competent have been seeking new motivation and understanding of the work of photographers whose work I have come across. I have opinions about the subjects of much of the work I have shown in the earlier parts of this course; the difficulty I have is in knowing how to express that in the image. This section of the course will, I think, present interesting and difficult challenges.

References

References to the works cited in this post are found in my separate post “References”