Lectures on the history of photography

With the birth of a photograph, a person began to confuse a copy with the original, only at times longing about the loss of reality. The art, improving in the mimer, went to naturalism, science, storage the masses of objects, formulated laws, and the technique applied them in useful devices. The existing was rapidly becoming reasonable, but reasonable - real. Or, in the later formulation, consciousness reflected the world, and the world was reflected in consciousness. And since this was supposed to be an absolutely objective process, he could not but find a material analogue: the photograph was invented.
Photos as a product of technology had to become not only a permanent assistant of science, but also the successor of the art. She made a direct transition from the idealism of abstraction to naturalism of life, becoming their embodied identity. Miraculously comfortable, simple and reliable. And irrevocably involved all objectivity in the "dense network of equivalence relations" (determining the psyche Z. Freud)
As the photos develop, wonderful meetings with reality have become a daily routine. And in the end, a direct conscious effort was already required, returning to initial experiences. Thus, the theories of the “photographic event” appeared, “decisive moment”, Studiuma and Punstuma, who seek to return photographers from the ordinary fornication of automatic shooting to the uniqueness of the first stunning dates, from the photographic slang to the “explanatory dictionary of nature” (E. Delacroix)
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