“Photography and Ontology” By Blake Stimson

“Photography and Ontology” By Blake Stimson, Professor of Art History at University of California, Davis from Melanie Ross on Vimeo.

Ontology is a branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.

So research into the nature of documentary photography has to ask the following. In my research I will be: “Exploring the ontological nature of what documentary photography is, will be of importance to the research, has this changed over the time frame that we are examining?”