Imagine a piano on which you can play any song like a virtuoso. Imagine a camera with which you can take any picture like a pro.
aesthetics
Posts in this category are relating representation conventions, mainly with regards to photography, with ways of thinking, values and worldview of our culture.
A little story of images
A reflection on our relationship with images from an lived experience in which an affective reference comes and goes between past and present, painting and photography.
Cottingley Faries
Two children photographed fairies in 1917 in England. The famous spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, saw the beginning of a new era of communication with parallel worlds. In this article, Cottingley's fairies are the pretext for a reflection on the authenticity of images.
Eyes wide open – 100 years of Leica Photography | Photo España 2017
Exhibition Review: discusses relationships between the technical features of the legendary Leica camera with aesthetics and new subjects in history of photography.
Pinhole, where truth, beauty and goodness meet
Pinhole is a photographic technique that employs most of the times a home made camera in different degrees of improvisation and roughness. Matchboxes, shoeboxes and whatever boxes and containers are sort of starting point for those projects. The photographer bricoleur may also start from scratch by...
Immateriality of digital image
A digital file is like a score for an image to be automatically played on a printer. Otherwise, a digital print is as material as any silver gelatin picture.
Popular portrait, at peace with fantasy
It allows plenty of good insights the exhibition, Retrato Popular, do vernáculo ao espetáculo, (Popular Portrait, from vernacular to spectacle) on show at SESC Belenzinho – São Paulo, since May 6 and ending July 31, 2016. First by providing an encounter of popular art, that is made for...
Alternative processes in photography
When we think about alternative processes in photography, what comes to our minds, is a sort of brownish prints showing cloudy images, because they were produced the way it was in the infancy of photography. Many people associate this kind of roughness to constrains given by early phases of...