The best example I can think of off the top of my head is an exhibit I saw as a student in Savannah, about 10 years ago: It was a show full of 4 x 6-foot color prints made from negatives shot by a disc camera. Remember those? They have an image area of about half a centimeter on a side! Blowing it up made for a very grainy image. But the process was showing itself off in the art, and it made the art better. Additionally (and more to the point of your question), Images made with a first-generation one megapixel digital camera are no less "art" than something made with a $50,000 digital camera with the latest imaging technology.
Does the process you choose enhance the expression of your personal vision, or hinder it? All other discussions about "superiority in color, detail, and resolution" are moot. If those arguments were the only ones to be made, we'd have thrown out Monet's and Van Gogh's paintings the moment someone like Rosenquist came along. The point is: all of these artists expressed their emotions, feelings, pain, desires, etc. in equally valid ways; the style and the media are just vessels that carry the water of our artistic expression.
-Alan Bucknam
On Feb 8, 2004, at 11:27 AM, rand flory wrote:
Colleagues,------------
I am taking a digital photography class. We had to read a paper that I
consider to be practically eons old. Included in the article was the
statement that digital photography is "not there yet."
I disagree.
I want to rebut that statement. But what do you all think? Is digital there
yet? Any comments would be appreciated, and may wind up as a quote in my
rebuttal paper.
ALSO...
I would like to Interview about six professional photographers or educators
more closely about this. If you are a pro (photographer or edcator) and
would be willing to fill out a questionnaire, please respond to
dp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I will send you the questionnaire quickly. I
only have a week to put this together. It doesn't matter if you agree or
disagree with the premise that digital is not there yet. I want to know what
people are actually DOING.
Thanks
rand
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