Thinking Notes
Thinking Notes Looking at Photographs, Layering Time — Reflections on the Theory of Micro-Phase Differences through Responses from Overseas Looking back at the responses I have received from overseas on social media, I find that they go beyond simple reactions to the history of Japanese photography. Several comments have, in fact, pointed directly to the nature of photography as a medium itself. One particularly important observation was that the strong connection between photographic images and writing, language, and even thought is a field worthy of study and research. This comment independently points toward an approach that understands photography not simply as a record of visual information, but as a medium of perception closely connected with language and thought. I have previously written that photography reflects how human beings have looked at and understood the world. A photograph does not simply reproduce reality. It inevitably incorporates what the photographer saw, what th...