Does Photography Really Mean Anything to Anyone in the Digital Age?
This article explains photography's current situation perfectly and says much of what I've said over the last two years. I'll cut and past several points for those with short attention spans.
Does Photography Really Mean Anything to Anyone in the Digital Age?
"But how much do you care about the photos you’re taking? Do they really mean anything to you? Do you really care about other digital images you see on a daily basis?"
"Cameras and photography are accessible to billions of people in every corner of the planet, but the ability to overindulge in what used to be an art form that was not as easy to access has had some negative effects."
"The digital age has enabled us to take photos of literally everything. But in the process of photography becoming so accessible it has cheapened the value of the art"
"The value in photography comes from the emotions that great photos can cause, and we just don’t get that very much in the digital age because digital images come and go in the blink of an eye…"
“We can start valuing photography again when we take pictures that really mean something, instead of just having digital photo albums filled with nonsensical dross.”
“People just don’t care as much about digital images as they do about physical prints.”
"Physical images have value, they have worth, and it’s something that we should be doing more of as a photography community so that we can appreciate and share our work with others in the real world, and not just in virtual spaces."
"Photography in the digital age has become devalued to a disturbingly low level. Photography is abused to the point that real works of art will never be seen due to the millions of images of last night’s dinner, or Fido the dog, or Fluffy the cat that gets shared online. "
"The value in photography comes from the emotions that great photos can cause, and we just don’t get that very much in the digital age because digital images come and go in the blink of an eye, and that’s only if they make it off of your hard drive and on to the web, and that is a real shame."
Does Photography Really Mean Anything to Anyone in the Digital Age?
"But how much do you care about the photos you’re taking? Do they really mean anything to you? Do you really care about other digital images you see on a daily basis?"
"Cameras and photography are accessible to billions of people in every corner of the planet, but the ability to overindulge in what used to be an art form that was not as easy to access has had some negative effects."
"The digital age has enabled us to take photos of literally everything. But in the process of photography becoming so accessible it has cheapened the value of the art"
"The value in photography comes from the emotions that great photos can cause, and we just don’t get that very much in the digital age because digital images come and go in the blink of an eye…"
“We can start valuing photography again when we take pictures that really mean something, instead of just having digital photo albums filled with nonsensical dross.”
“People just don’t care as much about digital images as they do about physical prints.”
"Physical images have value, they have worth, and it’s something that we should be doing more of as a photography community so that we can appreciate and share our work with others in the real world, and not just in virtual spaces."
"Photography in the digital age has become devalued to a disturbingly low level. Photography is abused to the point that real works of art will never be seen due to the millions of images of last night’s dinner, or Fido the dog, or Fluffy the cat that gets shared online. "
"The value in photography comes from the emotions that great photos can cause, and we just don’t get that very much in the digital age because digital images come and go in the blink of an eye, and that’s only if they make it off of your hard drive and on to the web, and that is a real shame."
The main problem, I think, with the "Digital Age" is not that there are worse photos made, digital or analogue, than previously, but that this digital social media age of ours makes possible for everyone to flood the web with lousy or uninteresting photos, and thus drown the good ones. Also, far too less photos, carefully chosen, are printed, while huge masses of crap is put out on social media, to collect likes and to be flickered thru and very seldom meditaded or reflected upon. All this is of course known, but never the less sad.
ReplyDeletetommi linna you are correct. I'm glad that more people are beginning to talk about it and that more articles are being released.
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