The Transformation of Photographic Reality in Transition from Analog to Dijital Photography


After the invention of the camera, it became questionable whether the photographic technology represented reality or to what extent it represented reality. The first period of reality debates focused on mainly about the replacement of reality with elements such lens selection, depth of field, exposure, angle, framing and composition, while recent reality debates are about the disappearance of human qualities (illusion, idea, consciousness, image, desire, scene, relationship). Again, the current debates that in the digital image era, photography has disappeared, that the image cannot understand digital images, that the subjective aspect of reality has been destroyed, and that there has been a different visual image era that cannot be called a photo. While the concepts of natural magic, illusion, thinking, appearing and disappearing gained during the analogue period of the photograph refer to the reality of the photograph and give the photograph a unique form, the ready-made codes loaded on the camera before the photographing process; manipulations and algorithmic processes during shooting have eliminated the reality of the photograph. In this study, the notion of reality was put into a conceptual framework and definition and the transformation of photographic reality with the transition from analogue photography to digital photography was tried to be explained. In this study, the concepts such as aura (halo), spectra, studium, punctum, which are used to explain photographic reality are discussed in the context of analog and digital photography and the human aspect of reality is aimed to be revealed.


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reality, photographic reality, analogue photograph, digital photograph, illusion, idea.

Author : Ülhak ÇİMEN
Number of pages: 15-37
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.40533
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Turkish Studies-Information Technologies and Applied Sciences
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