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‘A visit from the goon squad’
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I’m reading the above book when I came across this passage which I thought I might share with you.
A record producer is reflecting on the music business and he thinks
“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust!“Food for thought maybe.
One of the very core values of the grad program I am in is this is NOT the case. Photography is just going through a period of redefining itself, or more accurately – photography is being redefined by photographers. I firmly believe that the handmade image will be the future of art photography, as digital imagery (and the technology that can produce it) levels the playing field, elevating the average and boring the truly creative, who will go looking elsewhere for interesting imagery.
I’ve read your post several times and I have drawn the following 3 conclusions :
1. Handmade image (Analog ?) = future of art photography.
2. Digital photography = bores the truly creative.
3. Elsewhere = where the creative can be found searching.
Have I read your post correctly ? If I’m right , surely the passage from the book is more or less right. Digitization is sucking the life out of photography for the creative worker.I guess you’re right, but let me put it this way – digital is going to kill photography the way it was thought photography would kill painting. It didn’t. It made it better, conceptually and aesthetically. The passage from the book may be more or less right, but the conclusion he draws, in my opinion, is dead wrong. Digital will make photography (and photographers) better.
It is hard to imagine a darkroom print as being nothing other than a piece of art, each one is going to be a little different no matter how hard you try to be exact, I’m with you Vincent on this one.
Interesting article and “quote” thanks
Ken Rockwell has a very good item on his site about film and why we still like it.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/why-we-love-film.htm” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
Merry Christmas
EM
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