mfunnell
Shaken, so blurred
Regarding: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, (MIT Press), Sherry Turkle, 2007.
If nothing else, its an interesting counter-argument to those who think being a photographer means not being a gearhead. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. We can love our cameras both as objects themselves and as the means by which we produce photographs - and we're not stupid/crazy/whatever for doing so!
Its worth thinking about...
...Mike
I saw this in an article in the National Post, by Robert Fulford, and thought it was entirely apposite to many a discussion here. Visual thinking is still thinking, and around here we use our cameras for that."Objects bring philosophy down to earth," Turkle has decided. As she explains, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with."
If nothing else, its an interesting counter-argument to those who think being a photographer means not being a gearhead. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. We can love our cameras both as objects themselves and as the means by which we produce photographs - and we're not stupid/crazy/whatever for doing so!
Its worth thinking about...
...Mike
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I never thought them to be mutually exclusive. One can be the one and the other, though I don't think you can be both at the very same time in the act of shooting. Then either will be a distraction to the other.
Now I must read the article....
Now I must read the article....