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Question #35: What the F*ck is Photography’s Founding Myth (And Why the F*ck Should We Care)? Episode Two

Onward to Colour With the previous Question #34, we began a discussion of “Seeing X in Y”. Given that we have at least a fundamental grasp of the idea that a pictorial depiction is not an “innate” experience, but rather a cognitively mediated construct, what can be said about the construct of “colour” specifically? Let’s […]

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Question #34: What the F*ck is Photography’s Founding Myth (And Why the F*ck Should We Care)? Episode One

Dear reader… your burdened author has several posts sitting in the drafts box. The author has wanted to tackle some of the more interesting things around photographic “exposure”, or more specifically pictorial “exposure” for a good deal of time. Sadly, because the author’s maligned and misinformed worldview is so utterly deformed and distorted away from […]

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Question #5: What the F*ck does 0.5 mean?

Continuing along the analogy of mixing paints, the colours of the paints matter. If we ask two people to pick out three paints each, at random, and ask them to mix certain amounts according to a recipe, there is a zero percent chance the same colour would result between the two people using the identical […]