F R A M E

FRAME

 

“The frame gives incredible power to photovision: it establishes a hierarchy from the center of attention (the center of power) to the invisible (totally subdued by the seeing) outside of it. This power makes the documentary photographer a master. If the photographer surrenders to the discipline of art, his power is artistic, that is, it establishes the primacy of some aesthetic categories over others. If a photographer gives himself up to the discipline of politics, he fosters an uncritical perception of some hierarchy by the audience and thus strengthens the power of some over others. If the photographer is committed to the economic interest, he directs and intensifies consumption. Finally, if the photographer takes a critical position, then his work undermines the hierarchies of the named disciplines and gives the viewers the opportunity to free themselves from the networks of power that prescribe the visible and invisible, important and tertiary, necessary and harmful.

Thus, the framework makes it possible to establish orders of power, and undermine them. This means that the photographer - like any other master of image, word or judgment - is faced with a choice to give a voice to power or peace, order or chaos, to close access to truth or open it up. Each photograph is an event where the visible and the seeing can communicate or be in a blind and inauthentic world. "

 

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