A drawing is just lines put together. Is a line a work of fiction? By itself, it's an object, and only that. With thickness and length and curve and sometimes texture. A photograph captures a single moment, and it is inarguable that an undoctored photograph is non-fiction. A photograph captures a moment, and a drawing can capture a moment, but imperfectly. Even if the drawing is 100% true-to-life, it will be fiction, because it is an artifact of an artist's hands.
A drawing, more often than not, though, does not capture a moment, while a photograph captures a moment 100% of the time (well, "moment" is subjective, and it really depends on exposure length. (Which raises questions on its own, most notably involving direct-contact long-exposure photography techniques such as sun printing, but we'll drop that for now.)
No comments:
Post a Comment