The book is coming along in dribs and drabs. There will be another chapter, "Saturday Or Sunday" for photos where a specific date can't be determined but they feel like a Saturday or Sunday.
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There's always been some ambiguity about the date of Moonrise. Even in Adams' autobiography, he was unsure of it. But it was scientifically proven to have been taken on Sunday, November 1, 1941. But there's a part of me that wanted it to have been taken on Halloween, and Adams originally concluded that it was. It's interesting both as a Saturday image (Halloween night) and a Sunday image with the cross grave markers.
When I tracked it up I wanted it to have a spookiness: They're razing the old Sun-Times building in the Loop, and when I pass by it I always tune into the sound of jackhammers echoing through the empty space. [Now site of Trump Tower]
Here is an excerpt from a book titled Machine Vision which I have just started to read. This relates to how I am using metadata from photographs--specifically the date-taken metadata, and overlaying them--such that the date makes the image “operative” in that it connects points in time. It is not machinic, per se, but uses that aspect of digital photography that film photography didn't have unless you recorded the dates accurately.
Once we realize that images aren't just representational, we can begin to think more about what else images can do. if we understand operative images as images that contain data and instructions for using the data, maybe we could say that all images are operative: they encode visual information in a way that can be processed by our eyes and brains and interpreted as a representation of something actual or imagined. Abstract art and architecture can cause us to feel in certain ways. We can also think of diagrams, maps and visualizations as operative images. |
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