Fred Ritchin: After Photography

Fred Richtin’s After Photography, it explains more about the idea of how digital photography opens up many possibilities in one's photo. Like it said at the beginning of the chapter, “digital photography’s  relationship to space, to time, to authorship, to other media will make it clear that it represents an essentially different approach than does analog photography.” Digital photography expands on these aspects in order to represent or expand on an image regardless of what the context is or what the photographer's main reason is in taking pictures.

Throughout the reading, it talks a lot about the aspects of photography and the imagery of a picture taken. “Digital photography can acknowledge a more elastic sense of time, where future and past can intertwine and be as decisive as the present…” A photograph can represent a lot more than just what is taken, a photographer can take a picture of a person in a war and it can show some sense of worrisome or a picture of a homeless person can show empathy. Digital photography can influence a picture drastically, giving it a more sense of life or the moment in which the picture is taken.

“It’s a bit like wine; you make the wine; then you wait a while for it to become good before you drink it. But digital photographs, you consume immediately.” The overall purpose of this reading is that digital photography captures more than analog photography does. In analog photography, it is a process of waiting and having to take the best picture with no change needed, while in digital photography you can take a picture and change it the way someone wants regardless if the picture was taken awfully.