Comments on: Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Text and Context http://rising.blackstar.com/notes-from-the-viscom-classroom-text-and-context.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laurahttp://rising.blackstar.com/notes-from-the-viscom-classroom-text-and-context.html/comment-page-1#comment-6599 Laura Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:34 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/notes-from-the-viscom-classroom-text-and-context.html#comment-6599 To me, one of the most powerful things about historical photography is its ability to show us the world as it used to exist. I've always loved Edward S. Curtis' photographs of the old west and portraits of Native Americans. Some of them are so clear and focused that I feel like I'm looking through a window in time, and I might be able to start a conversation with the person in the photo and ask him or her what life was like back then.This thought also plays out into the future... what are we photographing today that won't be there in the years to come? What are we telling and showing to future generations with the images we take today? To me, one of the most powerful things about historical photography is its ability to show us the world as it used to exist. I've always loved Edward S. Curtis' photographs of the old west and portraits of Native Americans. Some of them are so clear and focused that I feel like I'm looking through a window in time, and I might be able to start a conversation with the person in the photo and ask him or her what life was like back then.

This thought also plays out into the future... what are we photographing today that won't be there in the years to come? What are we telling and showing to future generations with the images we take today?

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