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Jan 5, 2021 · Photography uses the archetype of beauty as a connection to truth. Photography was originally considered a way to objectively represent reality, completely untouched by the photographer’s perspective.
vii documentary photography all use the archetype of beauty as a connection to truth. Beauty, however, is based on the beliefs of a culture, and does not necessarily define truth. In the end, both postmodernism and modernism have their place in photographic philosophy.
The role of beauty in the desire for truth in photography: Immanuel Kant, in ‘Critique of Aesthetic Judgement’ held the idea that: “Beauty is primarily formal and cannot not be felt. It...
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. At least, that’s the classical understanding about beauty. It’s supposed to be a deeply personal, unfathomable concept of the human mind. Beauty is also culturally determined. People that share a common (recent) history are prone to respect the same works of art. Professor Denis Dutton argued that it’s more com...
A couple of weeks ago, well-known landscape photographer Marc Adamus uploaded his controversial “Mystic Park” on photo sharing social platform 500px, in which he admitted he replaced the sky. Adamus then got discredited in the comments as being a photographer in the first place. The title in this article refers to the fact that we, albeit subconsci...
It’s about time that we part with the idea that “the camera captures the true image.” That little black box has its JPEG-recording algorithm programmed by really smart people to help us remember, but it doesn’t help us to be better artists. Restriction isn’t the key to a new definition for photography, so let’s not have words describe what we can a...
Mar 17, 1999 · Scientific, news, artistic and documentary photography all use the archetype of beauty as a connection to truth. Beauty, however, is based on the beliefs of a culture, and does not...
Jun 15, 2005 · The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration.
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The idea that beauty is “right” and “true” has been around since human kind developed abstract thought. The Latin phrase Pulchritudo splendor varitatis (“beauty is the splendor of truth”) is thousands of years old, and suggests that beauty and truth are interrelated.
