Quotes by Fred Ritchin

Fred Ritchin

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated….now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.

Historical

Photography

Thinking

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well – we urgently need their perspectives.

Needs

Perspective

Way

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography’s status as an inherently truthful pictorial form… If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.

Doe

Photography

Profound

Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more honest and easier to read – they can also manipulate, although the work of professionals can be quite manipulative as well.

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Outcomes

Way

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

Employment

Media

Narrative

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Community

Issues

Persons

Photographs need to demand the viewer’s attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

Attention

Needs

World

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those “metaphotographers” who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

Google

Surveillance Cameras

Views

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One’s photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.

Drama

Photography

Years

The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.

Media

Profound

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Quotes by Fred Ritchin

Fred Ritchin

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well – we urgently need their perspectives.

Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more honest and easier to read – they can also manipulate, although the work of professionals can be quite manipulative as well.

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Photographs need to demand the viewer’s attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

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