Cliché and Stereotype in Photography
We are all guilty of shooting cliché imagery. Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. The cliché seems to have been ingrained into our DNA.
We are all guilty of shooting cliché imagery. Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. The cliché seems to have been ingrained into our DNA.
“…the eye and the camera see more than the mind knows.” – Nathan Lyons
he Camera Obscura allowed the user to see the subject projected onto a ground glass. The projected image could be traced onto a translucent…
Believe it or not, there used to be in almost every town, small shops that specialized in selling cameras. Once, not so long ago, the camera store was…
Here are a few quotes by some of the greatest image-maker’s and an essayist, as well as a few images, which I think help to illustrate what is stated.
The act of seeing can happen anywhere. Many people dream of going to a far away place to find the exotic as subject for their work. However,…
Cross-view stereo is one of several methods used for viewing stereo images. When viewing with this method, it does not require glasses to see the effect.
To a certain degree, the junkyard shows us where we have been, our struggle for permanence and our fate.
Cliché and banality are both very close in definition, yet they are also used quite often to distinguish between certain types of photographs.