Table of contents:
- 1. "Olympic Stadium"
- 2. Coastline of Sandy Point Island
- 3. "Space"
- 4. Portrait photography
- 5. Winner of the children's black and white photography competition
- 6. Prize-winner of an international competition
- 7. Risky photography
- 8. Distorted reality
- 9. Reflection
Video: Photos named the best jury of international competitions of black and white photography
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Each year, the collective "photo archive" created by humanity is replenished with almost a trillion digital images. Every minute there are more of them than in the entire nineteenth century. A huge share of all this messy "photomass" continuously uploaded to social networks and virtual storages belongs to the selfie: on Instagram, for example, more than 300 million photos have been tagged with this tag.
1. "Olympic Stadium"
2. Coastline of Sandy Point Island
For many people, hundreds or even thousands of shots per week are an integral part of not only vacation, but also everyday life. With the help of photographs, people try to keep in mind this or that event, catch an impression, share with friends an interesting shot, a view from the window of a hotel, their own apartment or a car. There are countless reasons for taking pictures. And all of them, it would seem, are quite reasonable.
3. "Space"
It was different before. Film cameras operated on cassettes with a limited number of frames, so you had to think carefully before making the coveted click. Then a difficult procedure was required for developing the film, printing photographs - in a home laboratory (which was perceived by many as a real sacrament) or in a photo studio. And even happy owners of a Polaroid camera, who could see the photo almost immediately, had only 8 or 10 shots at their disposal.
4. Portrait photography
At even earlier stages of the development of this art, everything was much more complicated, and photographs appeared in family albums only in connection with significant events or important stages of life. The attitude towards photography was calmer and more natural. Looking back at their lives and flipping through albums with photos, people revived images of the past in their memory. Something in the light of these memories looked more clearly, something - as if through a haze, but something was completely erased. Memory images were often "highlighted" by other sources of information - books, stories from relatives and friends.
5. Winner of the children's black and white photography competition
The obsession with shooting, characteristic of a modern person, was out of the question then. Yes, someone was fond of photography more, comprehending the theory and practice of this art, someone less, paying tribute to photography only during a vacation or a Sunday walk. Behind every picture, even not the most successful one, there was a memorable event. The ideas about the past were formed into a holistic and harmonious image that allows a person to feel the connection of times.
6. Prize-winner of an international competition
But the addiction of a modern person to constant shooting, excessive "photo-itch", forcing to look at the world as if through a lens window, and then upload more and more new pictures to social networks, is not able to link together the past, present and future. According to experts, photo content can lead to both memory impairment and cognitive distortions that impede mature self-determination and overcoming the identity crisis.
7. Risky photography
8. Distorted reality
The desire at all costs to capture any nonsense in a photograph can "pull" such a quasi-reporter out of life, throwing him to the other side of reality. The excess of photographs leads to the fact that real life is buried under this virtual heap of photospam. But modern man is used to perceiving the world only if it is refracted by a camera lens, and then edited in all sorts of graphic editors.
9. Reflection
It is well known that for the brain to function effectively, it is necessary to regularly train memory. Constant photographic recording of ongoing events leads to the opposite effect: a person who has forgotten how to memorize almost completely entrusts this function to external devices. By relying too much on them, we question our own identity. In fact, modern humanity looks in a distorting mirror.
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