Photography

Photography in New Media4.5.2010 Courtney Eckerle

Episode 1

Elliott ErwittBorn in Paris in 1928, spent young years in Italy, then

moved to the United States. One of the most prominent photographers of our time,

photographing everyone from everyday people to JFK and

Marilyn Monroe.

A photography purist, Erwitt has made his ideas about the profession known, and

his distaste for digital manipulation in photographs.

Click this link for an interview with Erwitt where

he details his ideas on photo manipulation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5p5Sx5qZg

Words of Elliott Erwitt

"Digital manipulation kills photography, it is enemy number one"

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

So where does digital media fit into the world

of photography?

Without photoshop, neither of these pictures

would be possible.

what would this girl even look like?

With companies like Creative Commons, Flickr, Photoshop, Picnik and many more aiding and distributing photography, media is becoming an integral

part of the business.

What will photography mean in the future?

-Photography on title page, as well as slides 4 & 8 courtesy of Courtney Eckerle.

IMAGE CREDITS

-Creative Commons images on slide 7 courtesy of Okinawa Soba (left) and Paolo Bradao (right)

--Slide 8 courtesy of Vinnie Boiteau.

--Slide 9 courtesy of A. Diez Herrero.

--Slide 11 courtesy of Jeff.