A photograph is the capturing of an image created with light into a digital or hard copy form.
January 18, 2018 by RJB
A photograph is a moment. Perhaps only in memory or perhaps in the more traditional light via lens via paper or sensor. A good photograph is something you can't forget, drawn from the subconscious and displayed across the invisible screen of the mind.
January 19, 2018 by Daniel Milnor
If a photograph is a moment, what distinguishes it from other moments? Is it the fact that it was noticed, a snapshot frozen with a camera or mind...
The photographs (prints/files/object) that I don’t want my mind to forget are of moments (image/time/light/space) that evoke memories beyond the frame.
January 19, 2018 by Chloe
A photograph is a record of moment that, in most cases, we consciously chose to preserve with the use of light and light sensitive material. The method of recording varies and is not as important as the subject itself. The result is an image presented either in a tangible, tactile format or projected with light once again on a screen or surface.
Note: I say “in most cases”, as experimental projects or happy accidents are often discovered and curated in hindsight and in these cases the act of consciously preserving the image to be presented as photograph is done after the act of recording.
January 23, 2018 by Sarah Abad
It's a way of expressing yourself emotionally. A moment in time, frozen unlike movies. A moment you can reflect upon and think about over and over and always find something new within the photograph.
Something still, is to be questioned over and over again and that's what a great photograph does.
January 24, 2018 by Dennis Forsberg
Outside of any physical processes involving in the making of a photograph, the status of the photograph is shifting. The prolifieraation of cameras through mobile technology could be compared somewhat to the time of the instamatic and polaroid cameras and film in the 70s & 80s, in that there there was a shift in the accessibility and speed to produce the final product. In that context, the value of the photograph is lessened. Limits in technology meant that when you took a picture of family, friends, or a holiday landscape, there was an emphasis on getting it right in that moment, whereas now we can take a photograph of anything and everything with little risk, and often the expiring of the memory that it is meant to represent is shorter. From a lifetime in the past to, minutes or hours with mobile photography.
January 24, 2018 by Rob
A photograph is not what you see, but what you make others see. (thanks Degas)
January 25, 2018 by Tim Wheeler
A photograph is many things, however, I see it as an emotional reaction to something that has been captured visually at a moment in time.
January 28, 2018 by Stak
I understand why many people define a photograph as a moment, of some sort... I think I should revise my definition accordingly, "An image of a moment captured when reflected light is recorded on light-sensitive material with a camera obscura."
January 28, 2018 by Chloe
For me, the definition of a photograph is a picture painted with light onto some sort of light sensitive material (film) or a digital device. It captures a fleeting moment and hence I am really unsure on where a photograph becomes a photo manipulation - when is a painting with light not what it is anymore due to changes applied after its capture - is e.g. adjusting contrast already manipulation? Or is it merely a subjective choice of how you want that “painting” to come across - merely a question of your personal approach? Am I going to far?
How do YOU define ‘photograph’?
January 18, 2018 by Chloe
A photograph is the capturing of an image created with light into a digital or hard copy form.
January 18, 2018 by RJB
A photograph is a moment. Perhaps only in memory or perhaps in the more traditional light via lens via paper or sensor. A good photograph is something you can't forget, drawn from the subconscious and displayed across the invisible screen of the mind.
January 19, 2018 by Daniel Milnor
If a photograph is a moment, what distinguishes it from other moments? Is it the fact that it was noticed, a snapshot frozen with a camera or mind... The photographs (prints/files/object) that I don’t want my mind to forget are of moments (image/time/light/space) that evoke memories beyond the frame.
January 19, 2018 by Chloe
A photograph is a record of moment that, in most cases, we consciously chose to preserve with the use of light and light sensitive material. The method of recording varies and is not as important as the subject itself. The result is an image presented either in a tangible, tactile format or projected with light once again on a screen or surface. Note: I say “in most cases”, as experimental projects or happy accidents are often discovered and curated in hindsight and in these cases the act of consciously preserving the image to be presented as photograph is done after the act of recording.
January 23, 2018 by Sarah Abad
It's a way of expressing yourself emotionally. A moment in time, frozen unlike movies. A moment you can reflect upon and think about over and over and always find something new within the photograph. Something still, is to be questioned over and over again and that's what a great photograph does.
January 24, 2018 by Dennis Forsberg
Outside of any physical processes involving in the making of a photograph, the status of the photograph is shifting. The prolifieraation of cameras through mobile technology could be compared somewhat to the time of the instamatic and polaroid cameras and film in the 70s & 80s, in that there there was a shift in the accessibility and speed to produce the final product. In that context, the value of the photograph is lessened. Limits in technology meant that when you took a picture of family, friends, or a holiday landscape, there was an emphasis on getting it right in that moment, whereas now we can take a photograph of anything and everything with little risk, and often the expiring of the memory that it is meant to represent is shorter. From a lifetime in the past to, minutes or hours with mobile photography.
January 24, 2018 by Rob
A photograph is not what you see, but what you make others see. (thanks Degas)
January 25, 2018 by Tim Wheeler
A photograph is many things, however, I see it as an emotional reaction to something that has been captured visually at a moment in time.
January 28, 2018 by Stak
I understand why many people define a photograph as a moment, of some sort... I think I should revise my definition accordingly, "An image of a moment captured when reflected light is recorded on light-sensitive material with a camera obscura."
January 28, 2018 by Chloe
For me, the definition of a photograph is a picture painted with light onto some sort of light sensitive material (film) or a digital device. It captures a fleeting moment and hence I am really unsure on where a photograph becomes a photo manipulation - when is a painting with light not what it is anymore due to changes applied after its capture - is e.g. adjusting contrast already manipulation? Or is it merely a subjective choice of how you want that “painting” to come across - merely a question of your personal approach? Am I going to far?
February 03, 2018 by Ursula
*too far - sorry for the typo!
February 03, 2018 by Ursula