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Essay / Digital and Analog Photography - 2249
Negative FeelingsTake a print in your hands. A traditional print. Yes, it can be held, it can be touched, it can be felt, it can be felt. This essay thematized the uniqueness of the physical process as well as the thought process of analog photography. As Henri Cartier Bresson beautifully wrote about the decisive moment "For me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the meaning of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give to this event its own expression." This moment, you wait for it is only a fraction of a second, before pressing the shutter, you establish a personal connection with the scene and wait for the right moment to take the photo. But in that moment, those 125 seconds we're blind, the image exists just in our imagination, a result of the connection we made before we decided to press the shutter. But the real picture is not there, you have not seen it. It is captured by the camera and comes out right after the film is processed. You can see your decision 1 hour after the photo was taken or 1 year after the photo was taken. Buy film, load the camera, shoot it, process it. Why are so many people still interested in the analog photography process? In the age of digital photography, we are increasingly confronted with the words easy, fast and cheap. Today, as black and white photographers, we are still forced to defend why we “still” take analog photos. - which the public in fact associates with slowness, cost and complexity. It is perhaps characteristic of our times that the powerful advertising industries can create such a conceptual association, without causing those involved to wonder whether ... middle of paper ...... passes the time. The tip of the pencil meets the newspaper. The result of a direct pulse, as light exposes a negative through the diaphragm and fixes what is in focus. Digitally delayed time cannot keep up with the momentum of what is seen. It produces a hybrid moment, it leads to a thought. image, which is contrary to the image looked at and observed. In an analog image, what one sees is obviously in agreement with one's own inner eye. " - Lothar Baumgarten Considering all these steps in creating an image, every time you press the shutter, it becomes something personal, something magical. All the power is given to be able to absorb and build at the same time You can take a photo in your hands, gently slide with a finger on the surface and feel the texture of the paper. You can hang a photo on the wall or hide it in a drawer..