Abstract
As photography developed into a discrete communication through its liminal shifts between the nineteenth, twentieth, and then twenty-first century generating its own poetic schemata between the photographer, photographed, and viewer, given that the three loci can function in all three posts at once or variations thereof. It also becomes clear that photography is a temporal or four-dimensional apparatus mapping closer to chaos than any other form of representation, compelling a photographer to live in confident harmony with time. Fine documentary, journalistic, street photography is a contemporary form of poetry, each photograph like a haiku poem small, neat and beautifully crafted and potent with meaning. Stillness implies observation, contemplation, and restraint. When a scene is photographed it is transposed as a new object and in principle ‘sculptural’, whether haiku or fine woodwork for shaping, polishing, positioning words or compositional devices such as light, shade, colour, focus, etc. over and over again to deliver meaning with maximum impact.
Presenters
David Julian CubbyAdjunct Fellow, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Photography, Poetics, Stillness, Object, Contemplation, Chaos, Time, Space
