Oublier la technique (Forget about technique)

Subtitled: Amateur photography or the democratization of the
automaton. A socio-historical review of the historical
development in photographic technology. As the magazine's
summary indicates: "The individual's assimilation of modern
technology is aptly characterized by the way in which amateur
family photography supercedes professional photography, since
the photographer now no longer needs technical knowledge and
this is made possible precisely because a certain stage in
modern technical development has been reached. As this
infiltrates the family environment so a concomitant
de-specialization of the manufactured product takes place
together with the concealment of its mechanical workings. When
applied to the quotidian environment, mechanical know-how allows
one to ignore technical know-how".


Citaten:
Mumford, L.: Technique et Civilisation (1950)
Giedion, S.: La Mécanisation du poivoir (1948)
Baudrillard, J.: Le Système des objets (1968)
Londe, A.: La Photographie moderne (1888)