Reading 2

Steve Edwards"Instrumental forms and mass practices of photo"        At first I found this very hard to read. Mainly this is because I enjoy having the real book in my hand to follow along with verse trying to read in scanned pages. Even though I had a hard time focusing on the writing I very much enjoy learning the history and backstory of photography. I also found it interesting who they talk about the controversy of photography not being real art. TodayI feel like this issue has been resolved a little bit more so then at the time when they are talking about in the reading. 1857 Lady Elizabeth Eastlake says that photography was "beneath the doing of real artists" and it is said that photography is just capturing an exact image of something. I do agree that photography captures an exact image of something but I believe that it takes lot of work to capture such an image and that the process of developing and how one works through the process makes it art. Even today we seem to have the same controversy with people asking what art really is and if this splatter paint canvas can really be seen as great art if others could do it also. With situations like these it always seems right to believe that everything is art. Everything around us weather it is captured by a camera, sketched, or even painted it is some form of art that should be appreciated.      When talking about objectivity in the reading it really makes you think "Where would we be without pictures?". So much information and knowledge really does come form it and helps capture something that is then remembered and passed on through history. Documenting huge moments in history, famous sights, famous people, special memories and even animals helps a person know what they are seeing and learn about different things not only from different time periods but from different places in the world.  Without  photography a huge chunk of our knowledge and our history would be missing and not let humans technologically advance.