A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed | The New Yorker

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A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed

The images of a burning Los Angeles won’t last, simply because our ways of seeing are inadequate to our predicament.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/a-city-on-fire-cant-be-photographed

The photographs are not all that different from video clips. Who has not, clicking through a news report, landed on a still photograph, only to notice it begin to move? The palette is the same—yellow ochre, cadmium orange, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna—and the scenes are the same

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/a-city-on-fire-cant-be-photographed

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