Single image (photography)
A single picture (in the technical sense standing picture ) is called:
- a single photographic image or a single image from a series of photographs,
- the single image from a film sequence, see also single image (film) .
In ethnographic or documentary photography , series of photographs are often made in order to show an issue in its temporal or spatial context or to illustrate a development. If a single image from this series is presented separately, for example in an illustrated book or an exhibition , the photographer's intention can be destroyed; this process is photographic normality as well as reality.
When taking the photos of the series, the photographer consciously constructs a context, since media can never completely transform the complexity of “reality” into the respective medium (image detail, two-dimensionality, no sounds, no smells, etc.); Through his series of images , the photographer creates an interpretation of contexts. A single image from this series can fundamentally change the interpretation intended by the photographer or even reverse it.
After this decontextualisation and recontextualisation by the photographer when making the Series a single image occurs when playing, for example in a magazine with a new caption re-contextualization (removal of the context of the series) with subsequent re-contextualization (presentation in the context of the magazine, for example, countered by advertising or explained by a picture description).