[HN Gopher] Unintended Consequences of Photography ___________________________________________________________________ Unintended Consequences of Photography Author : ohjeez Score : 19 points Date : 2022-09-10 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.saturdayeveningpost.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.saturdayeveningpost.com) | antiterra wrote: | > the handful of men who invented photography -- only wanted to | capture images from light reflected on a solid surface | | There's absolutely no need to portray someone like Daguerre as | merely a uninspired technician. I'm genuinely baffled why this is | the narrative tack the author took. | | From wikipedia: | | > Louis Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, | France. He was apprenticed in architecture, theatre design, and | panoramic painting to Pierre Prevost, the first French panorama | painter. Exceedingly adept at his skill of theatrical illusion, | he became a celebrated designer for the theatre, and later came | to invent the diorama, which opened in Paris in July 1822. | wussboy wrote: | Thanks for this "other side". I'm a technician (I build bots!) | but I like to think there is a sense of art to what I do. | cratermoon wrote: | I can't believe they didn't cite the 1890 Harvard Law Review | article, by Louis Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren, "The Right to | Privacy" where the future Supreme Court Justice wrote, | ""Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded | the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous | mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that | "what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the | house-tops.""[1] | | 1 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva... | k__ wrote: | I visited an exhibition about photography and the third Reich. | Very interesting. | | The new medium gave the illusion of capturing reality, because it | looked much more realistic than paintings. But in the end it | suffered the same biases. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-10 23:00 UTC)