I chose David Griffin’ 17 minute talk from a TED talk because I think that David Griffin, who is the Director of Photography of National Geographic magazine, is an interesting lecturer, although he is not an academician or a professor in the university.
Griffin talks about how important the photography is today, and he tells us that the photography can link the people to the world by telling a story and creating a visual narrative.
David Griffin says that photographs remind us the important moments in our lives, and he also believes that photography can make the real connection between the people and the world today. Moreover, photography is like a positive agent for understanding the challenges and opportunities that we confront in our real life. He also says that most people do not just use the photographs to look at all the problems, but they also look for the solutions.
I quite agree with what Griffin said because I believe that many pictures can help the people to see something or someone that they want to see but cannot see it by themselves such as the important place in each country, the famous persons, the extincted animal, etc. Therefore, nowadays, we can see more interesting pictures from all over the world through the photography, and these photographs are shown in a lot of media, for example, the magazines, the newspapers, the television, and the Internet. Obviously, Google website convinces me to believe that photography can connect us to everywhere in this world because we can search the pictures that we want to see in this website, not only search for the information. Moreover, I think photography does not only connect us to this world, but it also can connect us to outside the world, because we can see how the space, the planet or the galaxy looks like through the photographs today.
However, I feel that photography does not absolutely connect us to the world if some photographs are not present to the viewers. I believe some countries do not want to show the pictures that badly affect to their countries in the public such as the civil war, the violent riot, the prisoner torture. So, I think that the photography will actually connect us to the world if there is no concealment on any photographs.
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References
Griffin, D. (speaker) & TEDtalksDirector (producer). (2008, August 19). Photography connects us with the world. TEDtalksDirector on YouTube. Retrieved August 28, 2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4eye-hqQqQ
Saturday 29 August 2009
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Firstly, It's seem to be 15 minutes instead of 17 b'coz last 2 minutes is Nokia's advertisement :P
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I love that walrus. It's so cute ^___^
Finally, I think that your point that pictures let us know what is the real life of other people in the world is true. especially, the picture that Griffin displays for us. the picture of folk, who want to bought fish bone in fish market for cooking, is catch my eyes. I can see how hungry they are, and how terrible in their life is. Sometimes, pictures can tell you more than plenty of word you heard.