Jason E. Hill. Review of "Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen" by Fred Ritchin.

Hill, Jason E.

doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2014.26

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“…In attempting to show us everything (even if they fail in this regard), automatic and immersive photography has the potential to show us nothing much at all. There is also a 'citizen media' (Ritchin, 2013) and grassroots political dimension to some of these acts of intervention and reframing, where ordinary users are now the people able to make new meaning from vast immersive environments, that are primarily created and owned by large multinational corporations. It certainly isn't as simple as 'remove the frame, remove the bias'.…”

Section: Travelling Without Moving (2020) By Michael C Coldwellmentioning

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Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI

Schofield

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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The recent advent of virtual photography and artificial intelligence (specifically AI photography and diffusion models), presents a major challenge to both photographers and photography theory. All our common-sense assumptions about the ontology of the image now seem to be falling apart. Are these interlopers really photography? Can we hear the final death knell for the erstwhile medium in this era of ever-increasing media convergence and virtualisation? This practice-led investigation of these new media forms draws on the author’s recent creative work in virtual photographies, and similar interventions by other photographers and new media artists, seeking to augment and expand their practice using these new tools, whilst querying what photography really means today. From in-game photography to virtual exploration using Google Street View, to AI photography using the latest denoising diffusion models (such as Midjourney), there are surprising commonalities to explore between them, linking these new practices of image-making firmly back to traditions of lens-based photography. Rather than seeking a detailed map of this difficult new terrain, or a definitive ontology of emerging virtual photographies, the author reframes the discourse around practice, examining both photography as an evolving set of practices and also notions of media hauntology – specifically the spectral ways in which new media technologies are always haunted by prior practices and modes of communication. The importance of the frame to both traditional photography and new practices of virtual photography, is suggested as a vital and persistent dimension in photographic authorship. With that authorship increasingly contested by new generative methods, easy appropriation and AI image-making, the act of framing may become the best litmus test we have, for whether or not a photograph should be considered ‘real’ or valued.

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Section: Travelling Without Moving (2020) By Michael C Coldwellmentioning

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Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI

Schofield

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…While this may seem disastrous for long-standing critiques concerned with photography's indexicality, or representations of the "real," it discounts the way photography has always been somewhat "unreal" for its framing, selection, and optical distortions. Ritchin (2013) pointed out that image indexicality could help tell stories even more convincingly when woven into narratives than a series of images alone. The ability to share images directly with other social media users has fueled citizen activism around the world, notably in the United States, for the sake of police accountability.…”

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Visual media literacy and ethics: Images as affordances in the digital public sphere

Bock¹

2023

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This article argues for the adoption of an affordance model for media literacy. Media literacy efforts have largely evolved separately from visual literacy programs, neglecting the role of the photographic image in the digital public sphere. The hyper-visuality of media today demands closer attention to visuals in media literacy efforts because individuals cognitively process images differently. Images are more emotionally powerful and memorable than words. For these reasons, visual communication cannot be treated in parallel with words. Conceiving of visuals in media as artifacts used by messengers instead of independent messages supports media literacy’s goals of helping individuals navigate today’s digital environment. While such an approach is not the only way to understand images, the affordance paradigm cultivates discourse that supports media literacy. Rooted in the constructivist paradigm, the affordance frame serves as a bridge between photographic indexicality and contingency.

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Jason E. Hill. Review of "Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen" by Fred Ritchin.

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Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI

Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI

Visual media literacy and ethics: Images as affordances in the digital public sphere

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