Qs week 1 – 1st Presentation – “Global image: Worldwide Medium”

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Q: Do you see any parallels between the historic spread of photography and the transmission of digital imagery today?   In both cases, a new technology spread to copying existing approaches, For example, photography was seen as drawing, and then as a form of mimicking art. Then it found novel uses, for example as a tool of science, or a medium …

A Global Image Re-Make

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I would like to offer a ‘reverse re-make’, with, I hope, good reason. Sebastião Salgado is rightly seen as one of today’s most influential photographers. As part of his Genesis project, he was in Papua New Guinea in 2006. Here is an example image, a pair of musicians. Beautiful image, which he shot in an ‘outdoor studio’ (hence the background). In 1994, some …