Emerging Chapter #2

I found this chapter to be a little confusing at points or just hard to follow because Emerling uses so many examples of artists, their work and their ideas on different theories to make his points that further on in the chapter it got there was a lot to follow. Despite that, I did enjoy the majority of this chapter. There were many interesting points that I have never thought of before about photography or the becoming of photography that I enjoyed learning about. Enjoyed that throughout the chapter it was mentioned more than once that photography is not just a mimic of what it seen, there is more to taking a photograph than that and that it is more than the medium. In a counteraction of that point I liked how it included the example of Gregory Crewdson and how it seems he is almost diminished as a photographer because he uses so much of everything else and less of the raw or pure photography and was said to be more of a director. I just thought that this was an interesting point to be made. I also really enjoyed how the talk about the end of photography kept coming up. I personally took it in more of a way that it should be described as a change or development in photography instead of the end just because it has evolved so much since the beginning. There were many good point that were brought up in the chapter surrounding the discussion of frame in photography and Emerling did a great job of providing the reader with multiple sides to every point which I have felt is not usually the case.