Performing the Moment

Performing the Moment

This reading discusses the various aspects of the photograph and its association with performance art. In previous decades, in which photography served as the only proof of action, corporeal traces were considered ripe and innovative. These performances involved some kind of action and used the medium of photography as a form on documentation. However, some argue that there is some sort of separation between the viewer and the action itself, created through the use of a photographic medium. Olson sites Lobat’s “Hooters Project” as an example of this existence, in which the viewer is separated from those carrying out the action. Moreover, many argue that photography, as a form of art, is adding distance between the viewer and the work of art itself. I would have to disagree agree with this statement because photographs allow a moment of time to be captured as an image. Without photography, we would be unable to recreate these moments exactly as they occurred, or be able to look back on a moment with proof of its action and existence.
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