Monday, April 23, 2012

Photography Over?


Is photography over?  Like many stated this question is very open to interpretation.  Photography in the most understood term of just taking pictures with a camera is far from being over, today millions of people have the ability to take pictures due to new digital technology and the fact that nearly every cell phone produced today has a camera increases this ability.  Might it then be this reason that one would feel the “Art” of photography to be over due to this accessibility?  This mass production is not that different from the introduction of the Kodak Brownie, similarly this technology has given formally trained photographers a barrier to over come and has also simultaneously given others the ability to produce work.  Today with the internet at our disposal artist are able to be found and work to be dispersed easier than ever imagined and even this fact has spawned ideas and work i.e. Penelope Umbricos series Suns. 
            


This, the ability that photography has to grow with technology is to me one of the most exhilarating things photography has to offer.  Since day one photography has been growing changing and mutating and since the medium itself has only been around for some 160 years it is still very young as a practice, as a medium, and especially as a art.  New technology will constantly give us new techniques and new rules to break and to this I say photography is over but merely only over its adolescent years.

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