This document lists 24 possible topics for a presentation on photography, its history and techniques. The topics range from the alchemical and mechanical origins of photography to its contemporary uses in art, commerce and geopolitics. They explore photography's relationship to concepts like representation, portraiture, memory, ideology and the passage of time.
This document lists 24 possible topics for a presentation on photography, its history and techniques. The topics range from the alchemical and mechanical origins of photography to its contemporary uses in art, commerce and geopolitics. They explore photography's relationship to concepts like representation, portraiture, memory, ideology and the passage of time.
This document lists 24 possible topics for a presentation on photography, its history and techniques. The topics range from the alchemical and mechanical origins of photography to its contemporary uses in art, commerce and geopolitics. They explore photography's relationship to concepts like representation, portraiture, memory, ideology and the passage of time.
• Mechanical Operation and Capacity for Representation • Portraiture and Accuracy of Representation • Memento Mori in Early and Contemporary Photography • Photography as Sense Experience in the World • Image Making as Attempt to Eternalise the Transient • Windows: A New Poetics of Seeing • Photographic Function in Geopolitics • Photographic Image Making as Visual Dreaming • Analogy: Photography and Death • Changing Functions of Photographic Imaging in Singapore • Photographic Portraits as Iconography • Photography as Ideological Empowerment • Time, Space, and Truth in the Photographic Medium • Role of the Image Maker • Scientific Applications of Photography: From the Beginning • Translation of Information: Light as Data • Changing Phenomena of Moving Image as Culture: From Mid 1950s to Now • Commercial Photography and Truth Value • Objectification of Women in Commercial Photographic Practices • Contemporary Utility of Digital Photography • Evolving Trends of Photography and the Arts