Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia

Ummm.... First off it is just me or the video itself, or the video intended to where the vocalist's description on the photograph not match the photograph presented? Anyhow...am I to focus on the fact that he is burning every photograph that does not satisfy him or the life experiences he gained during the process of making these photographs. Burning a negative = over exposed photograph (or was it the other way around...).

Photography: Untitled

I personally have no idea of what to say or response to but here it is for Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes. Reading this leaves me confuse yet lights a bulb or shatters the glass (whichever one you call it I forgot, anyways...) since I've never gave such a deep thought towards photography before, it use to begin with the word or action "look" then leads off to "This, that, and that..." as to identifying what's on it and going along with what's provided without questioning or judging (Okay, maybe juding occures the split second whether the first to first three "that" draws your attention or not before sticking to the photograph or moving on to the next one). Okay, back to the reading. The authour gave me the feeling (maybe just him or possibly everyone else) that people prefer looking at photos, etc. never-encountered before, anything (including ones that outstands what's encountered before) fresh in thought. Another thing is that I sort of agree yet disagree with the author, how photogarphs transform the occurence of once to infinity yet limited due to its main focus on the subject, yes. However it is such limitation that generates a topic of pure imagination and logic in relation to the occured event. Another way I'll put this is "A picture is worth a thousand words, yet because of it we are able to build on those thousand words..." (I guess...)...