tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post8386519366561287341..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Photography is Inherently Ethicalamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-36912596214102597522021-03-07T07:17:55.016-08:002021-03-07T07:17:55.016-08:00"How can we, as a society, justify a gossip i..."How can we, as a society, justify a gossip industry that is engaged in what we can think of as societal bullying? How can we [...] justify thinking [...] that once you make movies [...] or once you record music [...], then you deserve to be the object of ridicule?" -- JG, 2013. Also 2021 (via Twitter).David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-22215292489320261682021-03-06T10:55:56.975-08:002021-03-06T10:55:56.975-08:00There's nothing ethical about golf. Speaking a...There's nothing ethical about golf. Speaking as a former caddy.David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-53262038492245682032021-03-06T09:29:16.638-08:002021-03-06T09:29:16.638-08:00You'd think so, but what about the inherently ...You'd think so, but what about the inherently ethical part?Matt Kalliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00051484131679998977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-64103492381682814332021-03-06T06:19:06.414-08:002021-03-06T06:19:06.414-08:00Surely you mean golf?Surely you mean golf?David Smithhttp://designartcraft.com/photonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-33433943013894170492021-03-05T12:35:05.315-08:002021-03-05T12:35:05.315-08:00I like being down in the weeds, dropping the ball,...I like being down in the weeds, dropping the ball, but still ending up on solid ground. Photography in a nutshell.<br />Matt Kalliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00051484131679998977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-3131756902669036902021-03-05T10:17:05.440-08:002021-03-05T10:17:05.440-08:00Ariella Azoulay is probably the most prominent pub...Ariella Azoulay is probably the most prominent published person here, she gets cited a lot by this crowd. There are some books, "The Civil Contract of Photography" and "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" which you could, in theory, read. I have not.<br /><br />There is this:<br /><br />https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/series/unlearning-decisive-moments-of-photography/<br /><br />which is pretty accessible and which I assume more or less offers a precis of sorts of her thinking in, at least, "Unlearning Imperialism"<br /><br />It's certainly possible I have her completely wrong, but my take is that she has a political project, namely to support a Free Palestine, and is using a critique of photography mainly to signal her political alliance.<br /><br />This is kind of the larger program I see in the Photographic Academy, though. It's all politics, and photography is simply a handy foil.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-40657955182579568572021-03-05T09:21:47.647-08:002021-03-05T09:21:47.647-08:00I have a question. You encapsulated the idea this ...I have a question. You encapsulated the idea this way, "Photography is seen by the self-styled experts as suspect by default. The photographer's gaze is probably re-victimizing someone, or re-capitulating colonialism, or something. "<br /><br />I am not at all familiar with the literature on this subject, other than what I have read here (and not always read very carefully). Is that idea used as a tool to analyze photographs to see if anything useful comes out of that analysis that we wouldn't have seen any other way? Or is it used more like a belief system that requires adherence before one can proceed further?Robert Roaldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887600184257979094noreply@blogger.com