Week 5

This week we mainly discuss about the technicalities of photography (mostly about colours and it being a recording device) and the advancement of the camera. What intrigued me mainly was that finally, we have come to the part of this module whereby we were presented on how colours were implemented in photography. To me it's like "FINALLY!" Because i mean, all these years of finding out how to set an image, what chemicals to use and what nots, finally i'm excited to find out WHO, HOW and WHEN someone perfected the technique to implement colours into a photograph. 

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Quoting from Gilles: "The search for colour began almost immediately after the invention of photography, as people were somehow disappointed with the black and white image. However technology didn’t allow for anything else than hand-tinting techniques for many decades."

This is the reason why i chose this slide for this week because this image in my opinion, represents the topic so well. Look at this portrait of Mori Singh, it's hand tinted with such vibrant choice of colours, directly representing the colours of Indian culture back then and even now. But imagine if it was in black and white it would've immediately affected the entire vibe of the image. Black and white is no doubt classic and beautiful but colours relate so well to us. I ever thought of how people used to live back then and looking at the photographs in black and white i still feel a little distant from it. However, with colours i feel more visually related to the image as i've seen these colours and i would know that they were living just like us in the past even for different cultures, we can observe the different types of colours they wore or used. 

For me i believe we don't live in a linear timeline, everything is like a patchwork of events and in this point in time, there are millions and billions of things happening right now as i speak but time still passes the same inevitably. But thanks to the invention of photography we are able to immortalise and reminiscent some of the richest moments we had with, or without colours.

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