Sunday, May 19, 2013

Memories, Fading, and Photos



So, I’ve been thinking a lot about photography. There’s something kind of amazing about photos. I mean, photos capture that moment, that memory, exactly as it happens. With paintings, though they are incredibly beautiful (I love art, I’m not discounting visual art at all), they are flawed in that they can’t capture everything. A person’s memory fades so the details get lost or changed because the human mind isn’t entirely reliable. But photography… photos don’t forget the details. They remember better than we do. David Griffin said “Photography carries a power that holds up under the relentless swirl of today’s saturated media world because photographs emulate the way that our mind freezes a significant moment.” And that is beautiful...

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