{"id":4753,"date":"2023-08-07T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2023-08-08T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:14:54","slug":"the-2-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2023\/08\/07\/the-2-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Per Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I feel like in times of these kind of seismic shifts, we tend to over-estimate the future and romanticize the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I never thought so much of this \u201cbearing witness \u201c-stuff: war and conflict-photography has been fucked up\u00a0 <\/span>for quite a while now, the systems of control are pretty much everywhere in place and we did not need AI to do that, thank you very much:\u00a0 <\/span>proof for the weapons of mass destruction were doctored and the actual truthy pictures of Abu Ghraib did not cause much of a ripple in the miltary-industrial complex, except for Lynndie England… war will still be beautiful, as David Shields pointed out, https:\/\/www.davidshields.com\/books\/war-is-beautiful<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>and that a non-white Napalm girl could have moved the heart of America enough to end a war is an ongoing myth we tell ourselves in order not to lose faith in our cameras:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/50-years-after-napalm-girl-myths-distort-the-reality-behind-a-horrific-photo-of-the-vietnam-war-and-exaggerate-its-impact-183291<\/a><\/p>\n

And has the heart of photography not been hollow for a long time before the advent of AI?! Does it really make such a big difference when the third hand of a model on a magazine is an actual\u00a0 <\/span>woman\u2019s hand\u00a0 <\/span>photoshopped\u00a0 <\/span>in or if this model does not even exist in the first place? What\u2019s staring at me\u00a0 <\/span>from the newsstand never\u00a0 <\/span>felt real: the commodity is an imaginary thing and the photo is only a complicit part in its construction. If a photo in a catalog is from an actual sneaker or just a stitched together Frankenstein-shoe does not rob me of my sleep. Like with all kinds of automations: this was mindless, boring, repetitive work for a soulless landlord\\corporation- yes, it brought food on the table but it never exactly was the kind of work that advances mankind- it only sells more shoes.<\/p>\n

We derive our self esteem as photographers from the two percent images worth looking at and often tend to forget that the other 98% are used for manufacturing consent and selling stuff. I can\u2019t find tears in me if AI is rampaging through these 98%…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I feel like in times of these kind of seismic shifts, we tend to over-estimate the future and romanticize the past.\u00a0 I never thought so much of this \u201cbearing witness \u201c-stuff: war and conflict-photography has been fucked up\u00a0 for quite a while now, the systems of control are pretty much everywhere in place and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-1eF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}