DIGITAL PHOTO: DEATH OF FILM, BIRTH OF A NEW PHOTOGRAPHY?
DESCRIPTION
You've had the chance to learn basic and more advanced photo editing in this class. So with all this software available to the everyday user, the question becomes ever more important for photographers-- how far is this going to go? At what point do the tools that are available take over the artistic medium they were created to assist? Is there such a thing as a REAL photograph out there anymore?
ASSIGNMENT
Read through the links on the following articles, and choose a minimum of two (to four) quotes to include in your response. Write a four paragraph, one page response to the prompt. In your response, answer the following questions:As a young/developing photographer, do you think the editing software that is available enhances photography for the better, or does it make it worse? What do you base your opinion on, and how has learning to use this software changed your opinion of photography? What do you think that your generation of photographers is contributing to the art form? How will it grow/change in the future?
ARTICLE
The Future of Photography? Jan17 by John Carvill
Is photography in crisis? Or is it thriving? How can we quantify the impact of digital technology upon what we think of as ‘a photograph’? What does the future hold? The aim of this series of interviews is to assess, or at least discuss, the future of photography.
In many ways, it would be easy to list some compelling reasons for arguing that photography is in rude health: there are more cameras being used, and more photographs being taken today, than ever before; the once marginalised discipline of street photography has now gained artistic acceptance and mainstream recognition; a few years ago, Sotheby’s in New York sold a single photographic print (‘The Pond – Moonlight’, by Edward Steichen) for $2.9 million. On the other hand, can we even be sure what we mean by ‘photography’ any more? Not only has digital technology changed the face of photography, but things are now moving so fast that the way things are changing is itself in flux. A few years ago, we might have been discussing online photo hosting sites such as Flickr; today Flickr itself can seem quite old hat, compared to phenomena such as Hipstamatic, Instagram, and Lytro’s ‘shoot now, focus later’ cameras. What will the long, or even medium term implications of all these technological impacts be? In a digital world, can film survive? In a video-oriented world, can the still image endure? Will ‘photographs’ still retain their power and centrality to our culture? Is photography, as a medium and an art form, changing so much that it may eventually splinter, or fizzle out completely?
READ THROUGH ONE OR TWO OTHER ARTICLES AND THE KODAK ARTICLE BELOW:
http://www.oomska.co.uk/the-future-of-photography/
http://www.oomska.co.uk/future-of-photography-qa-no-10-peter-marshall/
http://www.oomska.co.uk/future-of-photography-qa-no-9-nick-turpin/
http://www.oomska.co.uk/future-of-photography-qa-no-7-tamara-bogolasky/
End of the Kodak Company- READ THIS ARTICLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9025257/The-end-of-our-Kodak-moment.html
You've had the chance to learn basic and more advanced photo editing in this class. So with all this software available to the everyday user, the question becomes ever more important for photographers-- how far is this going to go? At what point do the tools that are available take over the artistic medium they were created to assist? Is there such a thing as a REAL photograph out there anymore?
ASSIGNMENT
Read through the links on the following articles, and choose a minimum of two (to four) quotes to include in your response. Write a four paragraph, one page response to the prompt. In your response, answer the following questions:As a young/developing photographer, do you think the editing software that is available enhances photography for the better, or does it make it worse? What do you base your opinion on, and how has learning to use this software changed your opinion of photography? What do you think that your generation of photographers is contributing to the art form? How will it grow/change in the future?
ARTICLE
The Future of Photography? Jan17 by John Carvill
Is photography in crisis? Or is it thriving? How can we quantify the impact of digital technology upon what we think of as ‘a photograph’? What does the future hold? The aim of this series of interviews is to assess, or at least discuss, the future of photography.
In many ways, it would be easy to list some compelling reasons for arguing that photography is in rude health: there are more cameras being used, and more photographs being taken today, than ever before; the once marginalised discipline of street photography has now gained artistic acceptance and mainstream recognition; a few years ago, Sotheby’s in New York sold a single photographic print (‘The Pond – Moonlight’, by Edward Steichen) for $2.9 million. On the other hand, can we even be sure what we mean by ‘photography’ any more? Not only has digital technology changed the face of photography, but things are now moving so fast that the way things are changing is itself in flux. A few years ago, we might have been discussing online photo hosting sites such as Flickr; today Flickr itself can seem quite old hat, compared to phenomena such as Hipstamatic, Instagram, and Lytro’s ‘shoot now, focus later’ cameras. What will the long, or even medium term implications of all these technological impacts be? In a digital world, can film survive? In a video-oriented world, can the still image endure? Will ‘photographs’ still retain their power and centrality to our culture? Is photography, as a medium and an art form, changing so much that it may eventually splinter, or fizzle out completely?
READ THROUGH ONE OR TWO OTHER ARTICLES AND THE KODAK ARTICLE BELOW:
http://www.oomska.co.uk/the-future-of-photography/
http://www.oomska.co.uk/future-of-photography-qa-no-10-peter-marshall/
http://www.oomska.co.uk/future-of-photography-qa-no-9-nick-turpin/
http://www.oomska.co.uk/future-of-photography-qa-no-7-tamara-bogolasky/
End of the Kodak Company- READ THIS ARTICLE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9025257/The-end-of-our-Kodak-moment.html