Photography Is

it’s always a record of something in the past  Photography is a forum on possibility, launched in conjunction with the publication of Fred Ritchin’s book After Photography in fall of 2008  Photography is love and death that’ll be my epitaph  Photography is the ultimate magic trick  Photography is ‘art’ but as soon as anyone takes a picture outside of some unknown fuzzy boundaries they are criticized for it  Photography is a package ... if you have put your 3D picture up on your website without saying it was a fiction and someone bought it - do you think they would be bothered if they found out it wasn’t actually a photograph?  Photography is saddled with the image (pun intended) that the camera never lies and therefore a photograph is expected to show the truth, which the average punter might define as what really was in front of the camera  Photography is usually considered as misleading imagery  Photography is the go-for-broke game of history  Photography is a silent medium and in Höfer’s libraries this is magnified, creating that feeling of “temple of learning” with which libraries have often been identified  Photography is no easy exercise  Photography is a memory device that allows us to forget  Photography is an innovation on previous Catholic traditions of miraculous images and offers insights into the dynamic nature of religious traditions and the role of creativity in people’s religious lives  Photography is an apparatus of power that cannot be reduced to any of its components: a camera, a photographer, a photographed environment, object, person, or spectator  Photography is a term that designates an ensemble of diverse actions that contain the 137