Re: Is photography dead?

Dudley Hanks wrote:

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Dudley Hanks wrote:


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AxisOfBeagles wrote:



The initial premise of this claim in invalid. Photography was never "tethered to realism". Only in the minds of those who knew nothing of the art. Dodging & burning, filters, overlays, ... numerous techniques of the craft to make a photograph more than 'reality'.

Yes, digital photography has expoded those techniques into a brave new world of manipulations avaiable to the photographer. But that certainly does not suggest that photography is dead. Quite the opposite.

Sesamy Street syndrome.


God, that sounds awful. I hope it's not contagious...

Horrifyingly, its reached the pandemic stage.

Is there a cure?

To late, those who might have been healthy enough in the past to look for a cure are no more, they too are infected and infecting others.
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