Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that can be said of the program are that the members of the department, especially in Light and Communication, are quite interested in student work, the projects are personally meaningful to the students, and the atmosphere is experimental and flexible. Most important, Vis Stud offers not only a different subject to study, but a different way to study
...absolute scale is practically impossible. Imagine, for example, an Ansel Adams photograph of the Rocky Mountains and a Life magazine shot of wounded soldiers in Vietnam. Even if someone comparing the two could decide that one better fulfills the photographer's purpose who could say which combination of subject matter and execution is ultimately more interesting...
...support-the-war vendor you can see several blocks down the street. A picture of people at tea includes most of the room. His idea is a good one, and he uses it best in a photo of the light on a man eating an ice cream cone. His subject matter, however, isn't consistently interesting. So, sometimes when his pictures tell us, "Look, here's what it is and where it is," we just don't care...
...photography as a better way of seeing, while others, like Robert Frank, see it as a chance to offer a view of life as it really is, to offer, quite literally, a slice of life. Photography remains in a kind of limbo--unable to oin with painting in transcending subject to pass into total abstraction, unable to share the capacity of films and novels to capture life's motion...
...photography to importance, a formulation that Sontag herself mentions at one point--namely, that photography does not confer importance, only discovers and communicates it. Between the two concepts lies a world of difference. If photography confers importance, this implies an importance inherent in the camera, rather than in the subject. It implies an already existing, hierarchical notion of what is and is not important. But if photography only discovers importance, this makes photography what William Stott has called it--"a radically democratic genre," a genre that discovers meaning and mystery in the apparently unimportant. As such, photography again deserves applause...