Hi, Klaus,
What is the design from which the photograph as a product is made?
Where in the professional designerly photographic process does the
creation of the design occur that is then used to create the photographic
image?
What format does this design take?
I can see that such a design might include a pre-decided and
recorded/written down a list of lighting instructions, location and timeline
of shoot, decisions about camera settings, decisions about image
composition, decisions about the steps of digital post-processing, etc
I suggest that where this happens the activity is a Design activity and a
design process.
In contrast, where these are done ad-hoc and live then I'd suggest it is
better considered as an Art activity and an art process?
Best wishes,
Terry
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Subject: [SPAM] Re: Design theory - do photographers design?
I think the issue of design being a verb or a noun is also applicable to
photographs.
Yes, at one point a photograph is a noun. But could it be an object without
a human being able to create it, to handle it, and to articulate the
perception of it belonging to a category of objects that come to live only
in the process of interpreting it?
To me a photograph resides in the interaction between a viewer and the
viewed. It entail a process. Good photographers are not robots who can press
the button of a camera, they are likely to have a sense of what viewers may
find interested when engaging with their creations. When photographing
succeeds, it results in conveying something that photographers saw and found
appealing -- relating two processes expressable in two verbs.
Klaus
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> On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Paul Mike Zender <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ken:
>
> I responded to Terry's incorrect assertion that design doesn't result in
made objects, but if we accept his (incorrect) definition then photographers
are not designers because their work definitely, always, makes an object:
the photograph. It's what photographers do, they make photographs.
>
> Hence, I believe Terry answered his own question: photographers in Terry's
world are not designers.
>
> Based on out past conversations I realize you see design more as a verb
than a noun, and as you know and I just have articulated I see it as both
verb and noun. Designers have always (in recorded history) been
craftspersons plus strategizes. Design does not work on the think system
(Professor Harold Hill, the Music Man).
>
> Best...
>
> Mike Zender
>
> University of Cincinnati
> Visible Language
>
>
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