One picture at the time!

 A story, a subject, a picture at the time are maybe the very base of the event of photography two hundred years ago. In our actual "cinematic" view of present life, it may appear difficult to fully understand how the people then have a special approach for (still) photography. If every moments are precious, you have to pay attention to select the ones which you elect to preserve in particular for a future reference. The magic is that limitative way of choosing is also a visual testimony of a past moment that won't be back forever.

Digital photography with its easiest to perform and to share freely and at a very low expense, has downvalued the power of the picture itself by offering a way too much multiplicity of them. In the past, we have already experimented this acceleration of disposable imagery with the more available photographic (people) press expansion since at least 75 years ago. So, the photographic digital introduction is not the only factor of this "visual" depreciation. At large and cheap public communications like the Internet or the mobile revolution are contributing to this phenomena.

Can we go back to the bucolic (in our minds only) past and reinvent a future with less frenetic pace of life? No, and we already know this as a fact that evolution never turn back even if many insecure people would want to do it with despair. This wheel is turning forward only but can change course for many reasons or causes that are difficult to apprehend as the prediction games have learned to us.

What we can avoid today is may be the lazy replication of past photography in order to get a maximum positive appreciations (likes) from everybody. Photography should be provocative and instructive for those who are looking at. And originality must prevail over repetitive multiplicity.

Photo Daniel M: Panasonic Lumix G95 / Vario G 14-140mm F3.5-5.6 II Power OIS