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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Let the Canons roar! (and the Nikons, Pentaxes...)

How dumb is this idea to have a Non Photography Day? I don't know about you but I find the idea that we should "Experience life in an unmediated fashion, without anything in front of your eyes. Live in the moment", as it's protagonist suggested in this BBC article, utterly abhorrent.

I like my life mediated. Living in the moment is pants, because (by definition) moments are too short. The world cries out to be captured, processed and the bad bits cropped out!

So, I'm launching a counter-campaign. Join me and let's make July 17th the most photographed day ever! :-)

Sandie Dee "Becca Bland"... oh the sweet irony :-) she has the blandest website I've ever seen :-o
Fetch my cameras... I've a battle to fight! :)

Jessica I read it and thought it sounded like a nice enough idea, they weren't being anti-photography, just saying lets all put our cameras down for a day and just enjoy it. But I can't think of a single photographer on any level who doesn't do that on a regular basis, even the most photo-crazed leave their cameras at home sometimes. So yeah, fuck her and her stupid none photography day!

Stephanie Delacey "Experience life in an unmediated fashion" - goodness me, what's wrong with the woman, has she never read Hegel? Hippy, new age nonsense.

Freiya count me in! i shall be seeking out inappropriate moments to snap and post to the group!

Billy Ooh what a good idea, non-non-photography day. A good excuse for taking loads of pictures:

"Erm... why are you taking loads of pictures?"
"It's Non-photography day of course."
"?????"

Michelle Faith I'll definitely take pics forsure...thats such a stupid idea

sim Modern life without media...pish.

& just how did they spread this message of abstinance....word of mouth?

I shall go to a Flickr meet in protest, with Ipod & cameras in hand, watch some telly, then listen to the radio as I Blog the lot.

Becky "goodness me, what's wrong with the woman, has she never read Hegel?"

LOL, great comeback Steph. :-)

Tch, hasn't read Hegel. Are there really people out there like that? :-)

:-/

Amate fromthebrightone Becca's point (although I'm stressing this way past the day, but hay you may join in next year when it goes global?) is that we live in such a mediated society that alot of our experiences are derived through images and that for one day as a collective we experiance the world without the use of any photos or film and that our sensory organs will not be decieved by perfect replications or representations.

It's nothing against photography, it's just a plea to experiance a world before before photography, could it really hurt that much?

Carolyn Ann "its protagonist", not "it's".

Just a minor correction.

I will, of course, support the day because I consider it a good idea. Hegel be damned; I gather he usually is.

Carolyn Ann

Carolyn Ann In the likely event that you do not read the comment I made on my blog re the aforementioned grammatical error, may I just say that you are perfectly free to correct the error, and delete these comments?

Carolyn Ann

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