In regards to the excerpt from The Ontology of the Photographic Image, the most interesting subject of the reading is its comparison between film and the other media that came before it or coexists with it today. I very much enjoyed the statement that, unlike other forms of art, what is rendered by a photograph IS the very model of what was intended to be made, which is unlike any other art form. His idea that the means communication between artist and audience is, unlike in other art, based solely on what is chosen to be seen is also relevant. One of the most basic tools we have access to is collecting footage and subsequently editing it together to show to someone else. The order in which we show what we have, the way we show it, and what we leave out is the building block on which our other techniques come from. Through these we can create context, relationships between otherwise unconnected sequence, and the intentional destruction of a connected sequence of events.
It's all in the showing.
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