>>3127297>this was an ironic trollNot at all, theory is very reverent to OPs question.
Is photography the snapshit of a hobbyist, is it a wedding album shot by a semi-skilled photographer for hire, is it the 900billion Fuji x100 "street" snaps of the back of peoples heads, is it a beautiful scenic landscape, or is it a large duratran by Jeff Wall? Or perhaps is it all of these things and none of them? Is Photography something greater?
In Ghost Dance, Jacques Derrida suggested that film & video was a sort of "phantom" or ghost, and photography was not. But was he mistaken, had he overlooked something in the photograph? Photography may be just as much a spector as it's cousin video, just as much the disembodied essence of the subject that was photographed.
or "its whatever the fuck you do with the output produced by a camera." as
>>3125981 suggests.
