My Response to Ritchin and Balsamo.
From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture.
“Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a Trojan horse, camouflaged, for the moment, as if it were nearly identical: its doppelganger, only better”. The first paragraph of into the digital by Ritchin, I chose to recite these words in my discussion because it reminds me of Roland Barthes ‘Camera …show more content…
That is the use of digital photography to change the story of an actual event. First off, I liked how Ritchin shared his experience on working at Time-Life books, his tells of the editor would reject the pictures he picked because as they said the targets weren’t creative or too ambiguous but they picked targets that more of a cliché. This reminds me of the stories my uncle Tunde (no relation it’s a Nigerian custom to refer friends of parents as uncle or aunty) will tell me on his days on publishing. He would have to make the targets of his pictures appear more enlighten than they actually using his and I quote “film tricks”. He could be editing out the poor sanitarian state of a private hospital to make it seem more desirable, feed a handful of the poverty stricken people in a community so they would smile for the camera, take pictures of an almost empty club or event but make it seem its was packed with people. The list goes on and when I would ask him why would put such lies on the newspaper, he would tell for the safety of his job and sometimes his life and he would go on to say that the truth is bitter and some Nigerians would threaten the paper if they should print the harsh reality of their suffering. Back then, I was a kid so he didn’t really understand what he meant in mind I was probably thinking he was doing another one of his homemade comedy routines, …show more content…
The technological innovations can show a better way of living that doesn’t require one to kill an infant. When does of the community say their killing culture, if you take a picture of their daily life’s there also forsaking their own culture by failing to teach juniors ones. For example, it is said in most Nigerian cultures that child should learn most of life from the family. I haven’t learnt my cultural language or methods because not one time did my parents, grandparent s or even uncles aunt teach me, they expect from to learn from where at school where everyone’s from a different cultural background and western education has been forced onto their syllabus, or from the television where the only thing channels that are children appropriate are from the western culture and the same is from majority of age groups.
Balsamo’s chapter on “Gendering the Technological imagination”, didn’t really strike home with me. While I can agree that women have low receiving end in the world of the engineering, I cannot agree that women will have a more imaginative thinking than men in the field. Because men and women are created equally and is the character of a person plus the background of person that contributes to the imagination. The sex of a person may contribute to the background and character but not have much of an
From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture.
“Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a Trojan horse, camouflaged, for the moment, as if it were nearly identical: its doppelganger, only better”. The first paragraph of into the digital by Ritchin, I chose to recite these words in my discussion because it reminds me of Roland Barthes ‘Camera …show more content…
That is the use of digital photography to change the story of an actual event. First off, I liked how Ritchin shared his experience on working at Time-Life books, his tells of the editor would reject the pictures he picked because as they said the targets weren’t creative or too ambiguous but they picked targets that more of a cliché. This reminds me of the stories my uncle Tunde (no relation it’s a Nigerian custom to refer friends of parents as uncle or aunty) will tell me on his days on publishing. He would have to make the targets of his pictures appear more enlighten than they actually using his and I quote “film tricks”. He could be editing out the poor sanitarian state of a private hospital to make it seem more desirable, feed a handful of the poverty stricken people in a community so they would smile for the camera, take pictures of an almost empty club or event but make it seem its was packed with people. The list goes on and when I would ask him why would put such lies on the newspaper, he would tell for the safety of his job and sometimes his life and he would go on to say that the truth is bitter and some Nigerians would threaten the paper if they should print the harsh reality of their suffering. Back then, I was a kid so he didn’t really understand what he meant in mind I was probably thinking he was doing another one of his homemade comedy routines, …show more content…
The technological innovations can show a better way of living that doesn’t require one to kill an infant. When does of the community say their killing culture, if you take a picture of their daily life’s there also forsaking their own culture by failing to teach juniors ones. For example, it is said in most Nigerian cultures that child should learn most of life from the family. I haven’t learnt my cultural language or methods because not one time did my parents, grandparent s or even uncles aunt teach me, they expect from to learn from where at school where everyone’s from a different cultural background and western education has been forced onto their syllabus, or from the television where the only thing channels that are children appropriate are from the western culture and the same is from majority of age groups.
Balsamo’s chapter on “Gendering the Technological imagination”, didn’t really strike home with me. While I can agree that women have low receiving end in the world of the engineering, I cannot agree that women will have a more imaginative thinking than men in the field. Because men and women are created equally and is the character of a person plus the background of person that contributes to the imagination. The sex of a person may contribute to the background and character but not have much of an