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Photographs why do people want them?

TheCatWoman

Honestly photographs freak me out, not just ones of me, but ones of others too, I often don't recognise myself or others in photographs and I'm not really into photo's of things either. I know most people are ok with them and make photography a hobby, but even the idea of taking a photograph let alone having one taken of me puts me in a state of near panic and I don't know why? I don't really understand what people get out of photographs.

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  • I only rarely take pictures, but it seems to me that we fear being forgotten. Ourselves, and also everything we love.

    When done obsessively, taking pictures shifts the attention from the moment to the image of the moment. This is what Guy Debord describes in the book The Society of Spectacle.

    But finding old pictures or videos of family members or me as a kid, or seeing my parents very young and healthy is quite striking and beautiful for me.

    Sometimes I can recover the intense emotions felt at those times.

  • in reply to emanningis

    It's alright Roy, it just amused me the thought of a smart phone that could fix classic cars.

    Maybe that's the difference, I'm quite happy to be forgotten, in fact in most instances I'd rather be forgotten.

    It does seem to me though that people are experiencing life through a lens, people take so many photos do they ever actually stop to look at what they're seeing with their own eyes?

    It is also coming to feel as though unless something is photographically documented and shared that it's not true or real. For instance when I saw a sparrowhawk in my garden in was there for such a short time, seconds, that unless I'd been pointing a camera at it there and then I would have missed it.

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  • in reply to emanningis

    It's alright Roy, it just amused me the thought of a smart phone that could fix classic cars.

    Maybe that's the difference, I'm quite happy to be forgotten, in fact in most instances I'd rather be forgotten.

    It does seem to me though that people are experiencing life through a lens, people take so many photos do they ever actually stop to look at what they're seeing with their own eyes?

    It is also coming to feel as though unless something is photographically documented and shared that it's not true or real. For instance when I saw a sparrowhawk in my garden in was there for such a short time, seconds, that unless I'd been pointing a camera at it there and then I would have missed it.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I was just about to say something similar, everyone seems to watch a live concert through their phones, if you’re going to watch it through a screen then save the money and watch it on tv.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I get your thing about taking pictures of things instead of looking at them. It amazes me when people go to see something or something passing by and they have phones in the air. I have also found that things like sunsets don't look as impressive on a photo. Yes if I am observing wildlife I would rather see it than a picture. 

    Another thing I find interesting on photos is relatives from the past showing how things were then. Sadly it seems that the younger generation are not interested though.