Verisimilitude

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About Verisimilitude

The appearance of reality.

I guess you could say that this group is centred round the premise of how we have learned to see and understand the world through a variety of different media. I have always been intrigued by the effects of image mediation upon our perception of ‘reality’ and the subsequent blurring between reality and fiction.
The classic examples within flickr are often sited as a photographic recording that has the appearance of a painting, film or a 3D rendering programme. However there are many other possibilities with which one can present this hyper real phenomenon and hopefully we will see some of them here.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the group thus far.

'In short, it does not seem possible in this day and age to claim that one can have a direct unmediated experience of the world. All we see is seen through the kaleidoscope of all that we have seen before'.

John Pfhal, Camera Culture in a Postmodern Age

'To an ever greater extent our experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures, first hand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it'.

Douglas Crimp, The Postmodern Era.

'I feel that the balance between fiction and reality has changed significantly in the past decades. Increasingly their roles are reversed and we now live inside of an enormous novel'

J.G Ballard, Crash