This was an off-shoot to following links about synthography, an excellent short piece thinking about tools like Midjourney as “idea cameras.”
Pictures are powerful because they can be shared across time, space, and language barriers. Pictures allow you to travel back in time and see what someone else saw, at that moment, wherever they were.
Photography can capture moments that happened, but synthography is not bound by the limitations of reality. Synthography can capture moments that did not happen and moments that could never happen.
Taking a great photo is about being at the right place, at the right time, and pointing your camera at the right subject, in just the right way.
Taking a great syntho is about stimulating the imagination of the camera. Synthography doesn’t require you to be anywhere or anywhen in particular. The great synthographers will be great storytellers and great poets.
Agree with all of this!
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