Quotes from Fred Ritchin

 

1. "We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made."

    This tells us how Ritchin sees photography. At first, when I read this, I interpreted him as saying that a photograph is a cutout of information and that taking a picture is also a process of capturing the information in front of you. This sounds like journalism to me. It may even sound like he is using magic to confine everything that was happening at the time the photo was taken to a single square. But when I read it again, the meaning changed. Is he trying to say that the photo is like a portal connecting the viewer to the place where the photo was taken, like a time machine? When I take a photograph, I am trying very hard to capture something beautiful in front of me. It would be interesting to be aware of how I want the viewers of my photographs to perceive that beauty and space.

2. “We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.”

    I honestly don't know what he is trying to say. The words used are too complicated. Perhaps he is trying to say that photographs are great because they can only capture reality and allow us to believe that our world and events existed. If so, I can agree with this idea. For example, when I see a photograph of a war or other historical event, I can recognize things that were previously only stories as stories that actually happened. That is how much I trust the medium of photography. However, with the recent development of AI, not everything can be said to be realistic, even if it is a photograph. This does not mean that the value of the photograph itself has decreased. In fact, I believe its value has increased. In a world full of fakes, I feel that photographs capture the real and convey the beauty of real nature and people's activities.


3. “In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography’s status as an inherently truthful pictorial form… If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.”

    Surprisingly, he already predicted the damage to the value of photography caused by AI like DeepFake that is happening right now. Indeed, as he said, people can no longer easily trust photos these days because of the realistic Fake images by AI. Right now, AI images are of such low quality that you can tell at a glance, but there is no doubt that they will become more realistic in the future. However, this is not a new story. There were stories like this even when Photoshop came out. As long as the concept of realism and digital fakery exists, the value of a photograph's ability to capture only reality will never go away.



Sources:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/80887-Fred_Ritchin?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.photoquotations.com/a/576/Fred%2BRitchin?utm_source=chatgpt.com


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