To indirectly alter your experiences by confusing your memories by material alteration of your own photos. Are we guilty of creating false impressions by putting every single one of our photos through photoshop's levels and curves?
Perhaps, these altered photographs are a choice of self-desired conditioning of our own memories. It might be that it is sub-conscious desire to remember things not as they actually were, but as what we would like to have imagined the experience to have been.
I am trying bit by bit to write more and more. Hopefully I will start to make sense after a few more attempts.
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perhaps we should look at photography as a multi-purposed medium with no "doctrine" or "ought-ness" to present/ represent (the medium), so with many other things... if we are going to rely on a photograph as "memory" or a s a memorable artifact that holds some "truth" or memory to our existence, then we have truly misunderstood what photography could be. it is true that "we", the agent of thought, emotion and consciousness gives the medium what we understand as the "human element"' people use the photographic tool as historic records, hedonism, crime, art, pornography, capital, etc.
memory is a funny thing we associate with self identity - sometimes, we can't even remember what we did last night; if a photograph's role is to fill in the gap, we are missing out an important factor that we understand that our very own senses deceives perception on many occasion, if you think otherwise - there is no point for you to read this partial comment... you are truly enlighten..
it is a reflection of the beholder, and the beholder (viewing the photograph)that makes a photograph mean anything. photoshopped or not, logical positivist or artist; it is always important to understand the motive behind the camera or monitor, and not the photograph itself. unless it
s just a complete self-indulgence trip only concerning the "aesthetic" value that has probably been programed before one come to awareness.
authenticity lies within the person's state of comprehension (of her world) and not on a photograph
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