Joerg Colberg sees photography as transformative art: HERE
Colberg's recent post on this issue is something that we as photographers should always keep in mind. Confoundedly, I have witnessed contemporary work that seems to ignore the transformative nature of the medium (actually, the work doesn't ignore the transformative nature, the artist does). While in this post-post-modernist era our awareness of the image as construction exists, there is often a disconnect between the truth about how this medium can irrevocably change a subject. I have heard many artist discussions which completely ignore the transformative nature all together, some will argue it is about the document, but that characteristic in and of itself is a transformative one, it suggests archives, museums, and evidence; all spaces where a subject becomes still, silent and helpless. I suppose that is the death that Barthes identifies.
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