Digital BW, The Print

"Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...> writes:

> David,
> 
> > I'll certainly grant all the obvious ways in which a photo is an
> > abstraction from reality, and not the reality itself.  Frozen moment,
> 
> Why is a frozen moment not reality?

Reality is continuous and fluid.

> > chosen angle,
> 
> And why is that not reality?

Reality occurs in the round, including the parts we can't see.

> > in B&W loss of color,
> 
> But color is not the only reality, there is also IR, UV, grayscale etc.
> It's merely a different spectral response.

B&W is less information than color.  IR and UV are also relevant (and
radio and x-rays and all that).  And a photo only captures some small
part of this.  (All of them are used for photography in one situation
or another, butn ot *all at once*). 

> I'm not sure that your points here show that a photo is an abstraction from
> reality...

Well, they do conclusively to me.  I got a bit into what *I* mean by
abstraction in a later message, I'll wait and see how you respond to
that. 
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