>>2703198fine, ass.
photography is obviously a visual format much more closely tied to the Real than other traditional visual arts, but it's also a format specifically created with self-reproduction in mind. this is stuff that Benjamin was writing about in the early 20th century.
it can also be interpreted many different ways based on the subjective experiences of the viewer, since it is a reductive format easily interpreted w/ Saussurean/Barthesian signs & denotation/connotation. a photo of a tree may represent some platonic tree, but a million meanings can be extrapolated from that based on the subjective experiences of the viewer.
since I'm interested particularly in exploring the fractal, self-replicating aspects of photography, my goal is to remove subjectivity and produce photos as objective as possible. one such technique is to produce objects which are physically difficult to interpret or to connect to reality. it was this sort of technique (removal of context and form) which made atget attractive to the surrealists. atget is also admirable because he created works designed specifically to supplant the Real, a very post-structualist concept ("documents pour artistes"). i want to produce photos which are objects descriptive of themselves & distinct from the Real (something like hyperreality a la Baudrillard).
if that's not talking about my personal approach to photography idk what is
