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Notes towards a definition of Photography

1. To "see" is apriori independent of any logically based language or intellectual process.
2. Photography is a process of seeing, selecting, and looking - vision.
3. Vision is an image game.
4. Photography is a non-intellectual process beyond the scope of logic and language. In contrast, modern "Art", as defined by "Modernism" or "Postmodernism", is a purely intellectual language game.
5. "Modernism" is not an apriori process.
6. Photography and Modernism are divergent processes.
7. "Modern Artists" use photographs to help describe their intellectual motivation for creating "Art".
8. Photographers are visually motivated to produce photographs.
9. Photography in its simplest form is apriori vision.
10. Photographs are image games that have to do with pure apriori seeing and selecting.
11. Photographers create their own image games independent of language or logic.
12. A photographer learns to see in an innovative manner. Photographers become adept at their own image games. This advances the discipline of Photography.
13. A photographers innovation in Photography is a redefinition of an image game or vision. This is the essence of innovation in Photography.
14. Modernism construes image games for language games.
15. "Modern Artists", in many instances, use language games to justify poorly defined image games. It may be appropriate for "Art" but not Photography.
16. A well played image game must be presented in a technically adept manner.
17. Technical motivation alone can never be an end in itself for an image game - a photograph.
18. Photographers use photographs to compact information into a two dimensional space. When one attempts to describe this game via language one experiences an expansion of superfluous information. Language is inefficient in this case.
19. Using language to describe an image is contradictory. One cannot "imagine" someone else's photograph through the logic of language.
20. Language games and image games have different rules.
21. Image games are recorded in "front" of the camera lens not "behind".
22. A particular image game has a set of rules. The generalization of these rules to seeing and selecting defines a photographic framework - a photographers "style".

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