Cameras as "Evocative Objects"

[mfunnell]

Regarding: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, (MIT Press), Sherry Turkle, 2007.

"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."

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.

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

 

[RML]

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....