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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
The photograph is a documentation of history, but it's very unlike other forms of documentation which records history through a segement of time...[...] what it lacks revealing the whole event in time it makes up for in that a still photograph or painting allows person to use her imagination to elaborate on the events that happens before and after the event - like a play whose actors talk about events that happen "off screen." The painting or photograph is meant to evoke the imagination, it not meant to be a objective experience but a subjective particiption in which the artist allows you to become an artist in veiwing his art by giving you some senario in which you fill in all the other details left out of the photograph. It also does what many people wish for that is to freeze time, to let a moment linger a little longer, to capture clearer an event that would become a vague memory dulled through the passage of time.
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A very lovely description of the evokative function of a photograph or painting, Neapolitan: a photograph is like a play whose actors talk about events that happen off screen. I like your analogy very much. We should probably move our discussion to the photography or art thread to discuss more, though!
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
I would go even farther with your analogy (if you don't mind) and say that the posts are the photographs of the members; and voting on the members is like a photocopy of a photograph, where photocopy of the photograph aint too sharp because Xerox machine needs the toner catridge needs to be replaced.
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I don't mind at all, or course...and agree with you that voting is like imperfect Xerox copies of the photograph-posts! You see...I really do like the way you think and write.
