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Studio Practice Course, Visual Studies Programme, Department Of Philosophy, Lingnan University
Studio Practice Course, Visual Studies Programme, Department Of Philosophy, Lingnan University
Visual Studies Programme : Students’ Monographs
Wordings from Klaus
The word document (from Latin "docere", to teach) first describes something that holds clues or provides proof, usually as written evidence. Much of the document remained in the realm of words until the mid-19th century invention of photography. Daguerre's contemporaries' amazement over the fact that the camera would depict reality quasi automatically made photography and film the quintessential documentary media throughout the 20th and early 21 st century.
Learning to question this automatic trust the technological media have been invested with from early implementations to the time of digital manipulation was a trip the students of Lingnan …