Amplified photographic data
“ ‘Surface-marking’ category is in the history of technology. It is typical that a previous, indispensable effort to ‘find a pattern of significance in the story of prints. ”
" Just my imagination = CONDITIONAL Imaging”
“ Imaging technologies amplify (also filter) our imaging powers, we must surely note another kind of power: the power to incite others to imagine. Some people have such powers, while others lack them. .... We have to realize that picture-making practices are technologies for amplified imaging, among which photo-depictive technologies take their place. Still, they do have specific characteristics. As marked surfaces, whether permanent or transient (on screens), photographs are physical entities. As depictions, prescribers and enticers of our imaginations, they are functional objects. “
------From The engine of visualization - thinking through photography
This book reminds me of my thesis Amplified photographic data - a design consideration.
Photography connects the human mind with material society
Photography is a research tool
Photographic data is an empowering tool to direct attention
Photography should also be a research tool for interaction designers
Also, I define amplified photographic data from my personal perspective, which are “hidden letter” photographs.
The definition: images that contain an abstract symbolic shape that can be more or less interpreted as a “hidden letter”.
Based upon my personal experiences in exchanging “hidden letter” photographs on a social media platform (Same). My thesis project wants to amplify that concept and go more in depth. [Same is a Chinese social media in which users, or “samers,” share their same interests and hobbies.
Photography is a common behavior in modern society. “Hidden letter” photographs utilize common photographic principals; the distinguishing factor is that “hidden letter” photographs utilize a distinct style of visual perception that is not as obvious in more typical photographs. The key point is that by showing this project to others, they can realize that they have the visual potential to see things in new, unorthodox ways.
This project attempts to compare a human’s visual responses based on the presence and absence of access to extracted and amplified alphabetical shapes from photographs to explore a person’s perception and preference of photographs.
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