Photographing From Memory

Photography is unique in the visual arts. It requires physicality to function. It requires a presence, a thing, an object, a place. It requires a noun in order to become what it is. No other art requires anything except the mind of the artist. A photographic image cannot be made from memory. A painting can. A sculpture can. A photograph cannot. What does this mean to me as a photographic artist? Does it even matter?

The link to reality that photography needs in order to fulfill it’s function has been a stumbling block from it’s invention in 1839. At first people only wanted to record facts, places, and things. Fast forward 169 years and it seems that many of us are more interested in photographing from memory. I’m more interested in communicating what is in my head than what my eyes see. It seems to go against the very nature of the medium I have chosen to communicate through. Can it be done? What are the images going to look like? Where will they come from and how will they be made? Does technology get in the way of this desire to photograph from memory? Project our thoughts another 100 years into the future and where does photography find itself?

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  1. Lexi Says:

    I’m so glad to see you back up!!! And with new posts even, very good!

    One of the things I love about photography is that reality is necessary because it means that something did exist a form of proof, and you know how I love my proof. I love that if it says nothing else it says that the thing existed and I was there to photograph it. I’m not sure what it would mean to photograph from memory, I know what it would mean to photograph because of memory. Those aren’t the same things though…

    100 years from now photography wont exist at all, videos will be made through inter-retinal-devices and if you want a still from that you just take one. But every moment of every day will be recorded through this device implanted in your brain at birth. It’s not only a way to replace memory but also a form of governmental control. It is pretty scary, that’s why I came back to good old 2008.

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