RSS feedI’m not a fan of still photography, particularly in “olden times”, when most photographs were posed for. I don’t like modern posed photos either (he says, noticing the posed shot of himself on his website), but that’s fine, as we have other methods for documenting history.
Looking at old “posed for” photographs, I can’t even start to visualise what life must have been like. The body poses are all put on, as are the faces, all those happy smiling faces. I find it hard to believe that everyone was happy in the early 20th century. It’s like watching professional models in an advertisement for Versace or Coca Cola, everyone’s happy, everyone’s beautiful… and everyone’s jacked up on speed and Cocaine, which they well could have been back in the 1800s when it was all legal, and the most famous poems in history were all drug induced. I’m starting to ramble…
Anyway, I’ve done photography rants to death already, so I’m not going to do that again. But I am going to point out that this is one of the reasons why videoblogging is so cool. A lot of it is real people in real situations, not acting, not putting on anything, just doing the real stuff they do, and being passionate about it.
In 100 years, our successors will look back at the massive amount of real media documenting real people, and although it won’t be like being here, it will be pretty damn exciting being able to view audiovisual representations of hundreds of years in the past. Imagine if we could see crystal clear (digital) quality video of Napoleon, King Henry VIII, that peasant guy from London who shovels shit off the cobblestones each week, or even a videoblog from a convict sent to Australia in the late 1700s.
This video is a snapshot of real people wasting real time.
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