Reading Response Ch.1

Ch. 1 describes the time and space of photography, it's ability to capture a moment in time, and accurately. It is no wonder that photography had it's initial function of documenting visuals. As the chapter continued to explain the history of the function of photography, and it's transformation into a tool for artistic expression, I find it interesting that this can be interpreted in different ways.

First, people use it as a way of artist expression because now, you can digitize it or even create a set to photograph something that isn't real. This to me is the magical, or even mysterious characteristic of photography. Another aspect of photography as art is that the act if photographing is not merely snapping to document. It is an art to be able to capture this specific moment in time, the essence of the object inn that instance. This is also why I belief in the true art of a candid portrait, like the work Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange. A picture like that can tell a story, draws the viewer in, makes them ask questions.

Photographs are time-specific (p.33), do you think photography only really draw attention to that specific time the photograph was taken, or does it also address the other times in relation to it, hence enabling a story-telling process?