#factography

[dmcreativestudio]

There’s no revolution if, instead of making a general’s portrait, photographers have started to photograph proletarian leaders, but are still using the same photographic approach that was employed under the old regime or under the influence of Western art.

Alexander Rodchenko

In other words, new times demand new aesthetic principles; we cannot keep regurgitating the old ones.

[spaceaudit-blog]

- discipline (as in the discipline of architecture, or history) by virtue of its being an institution is hiding some level of conflict - how can that conflict be day-lighted.. how to be aware of this in any research that we undertake - Factography, 1920’s Soviet concept/practice. As opposed to documentary that is objective, this actively acknowledges and celebrates that facts are made. - Franz Fanon: “we must discuss… we must invent”