A photograph without space and time. Functions Values and Messages of the generated-through software photograph (GSP)

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Art - Photography and Film Old Dominion University (Humanities) language: English abstract: Garry Winogrand was one of the last masters of so called modern photography. A photojournalist and art photographer using a Leica reflex camera loaded with a 28mm lens and a TriX 400 iso film he rose to fame for his street pictures taken extensively across the United States and across several foreign countries. Winogrand began his entanglement with photography in the 1950s. He created numerous images and produced five published monographs before his death in 1984. One of his famous quotes summarizes his perceptions about photography as follows: A work of art is that thing whose form and content are organic to the tools and materials that made it. Still photography is a chemical mechanical process. Literal description or the illusion of literal description is what the tools and materials of still photography do better than any other graphic medium. A still photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how a camera saw a piece of time and space. Understanding this one can postulate the following theorem: Anything and all things are photographable. A photograph can only look like how the camera saw what was photographed. Or how the camera saw the piece of time and space is responsible for how the photograph looks. ....I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium by letting it do what it does best describe. And respect for the subject by describing as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both. (Garry Winogrand Austin Texas 1974 photograpy quotes.com 2011)Since then a lot has changed. We are experiencing a shift in traditional ways of displaying and producing photographs. On the one hand photographs are now displayed via projectors digital frames digital family albums blogs and massively on web sites. On the other hand photographs are no