Fred Ritchin Article

"The contradictory "double image" is cubist; reality as no single truth" - Fred Ritchin

 A photo can be worth a thousand words. These words can all be entirely different from one another or the exact same thing. When it comes to the contents of a photo, they can meant something entirely different to the view or to the individuals within the photograph itself. This quote expresses how reality has no single truth and that s a very true statement in my mind. For instance military being positioned somewhere over seas. To us or to the military themselves thy are there to keep peaces and order and they see has what they're doing as a necessity. However, to some of the individual within those areas that they are stationed they may feel as though the military is being invasive and trying to control what is not theirs to control. Both of these different views of reality are true to the individuals that see them that way and they have a right to view it in their own ways.

"Its a bit like wine: you make the wine; then you then you wait a while for it to become good before you drink it. But digital images, you consume immediately" - Paolo Woods

This quote is referencing the process in which photography was. Before the digital age, photography took a considerable amount of time. The process between actually taking the photos to then developing them was a delicate process that needed much care and attention to get right. An individual or individuals that were photographed had a waiting period in which they weren't able to see their photos and then once they did it was days or weeks later. Once digital was introduced things became a lot faster. Photos could be taken and they view within the same day. It created room for collaboration and for instant feed back as to what could be done to make the image better.

"Rolling down a ramp is continuous motion, but walking down stairs is a sequence of discrete steps ..." - William J. Mitchell

This is talking about the differences between analog and digital. The process of rolling down a ramp and being a continuous motion is related to that of analog. As for digital being related to waling down stair and being a sequence of discrete steps. Analog is composed of a chemical grain that captures light, as for digital which is composed of row after row of digital pixels that capture the image. Analog provided a more natural flow of how the images came out as for digital which can basically be set to recreate the same image over and over again.