Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
The last lab in the world processing Kodachrome has just closed. Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film in 2009. The loss of this film is deeply mourned. There is a sense of nostalgia for a bygone aesthetic of film.
I never really used Kodachrome--and the projector and slides in a carousel---as I was into negatives and print on a rangefinder. Looking back, the pace of technological change has been phenomenal, introducing extraordinary levels of image quality for digital formats, as well as the convergence of high-definition video with stills. I often wonder today how I managed without digital.
Looking back I begin to understand that unlike the history of cinema, which developed by synchronising sound and vision, photography’s arrested development meant that it continued to view the world mute and still. What would be interesting to explore is reintroducing sound back into the photograph in a way that challenges the photograph’s muteness and the way photographic space is negotiated.
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