I heard it again yesterday for the billionth time: “Digital Photography”. Isn’t it time we drop the word ‘digital’?
Seems we’ve managed to drop the “electric” from “electric guitar” in common parlance.
We found it easy to drop the word “acrylic” from “acrylic painting” when that came on the scene with oils.
We quickly ditched the “digital” from “digital music” when it took the lead over records and tapes and CDs.
I suppose by-and-large our industry has dropped the word, but given that digital and analog photography are fundamentally the same thing, isn’t it time we implore the rest of the world to assimilate the term “digital photography” back into “photography” as a whole?
just discovered this Chase person, who seems to love the sound of his own voice
why do you talk so much Chase ?
maybe its a fear of loneliness
yawn.
seriously jon? there are 140,000,000 blogs on line. if you don’t like this one, there are many others. i didn’t ask you to visit.
your refund is in the mail.
Digital still is new. very new. it’s gotten amazingly better in just a few years! and it will continue to become better and better and better…. I’m sure the term “digital photography” will be dropped soon anyways as digital seems industry standard by now.
That said, I personally have more immense respect for photographers who use traditional darkroom & film photography as their craft/art forms in photography. To see a photograph that has Never seen photoshop nor been through computer image processing to me deserves massive respect. Especially these days when i see digital labs filled with people sitting on their butts at a computer only to get up to check on their inkjet prints. To actually shoot film, develop it standing up, moving trays, moving around! mixing chemicals, making photographic prints on light-sensitive paper, etc., is truly an amazing skill that is rapidly disappearing. I think of Immogen Cunningham in her darkroom at 80 years old mixing chemicals and producing beautiful exhibition prints on silver fiber paper. Her body of work is stunning and true & produced through skills that are under-appreciated these days when so many beautiful photographs are being cranked out of a canon 5d, where another photographer is born every 5 minutes with the ease of a intel based computer & a digital slr.
So yeah, remove “digital” for sure from photography, because it has changed and is standard. But it would be nice to come up with a new term for the old traditional form of photography that was pre-computer & built from photosensitive organic materials if only out of respect.
It’s still an Electric Guitar. Or anAcoustic guitar. For a professional guitar player this is a BIG BIG difference.
But i hear ya
Totally agreee. In fact I think it is being droppped. Maybe my mind has blocked it out but I am not hearing it that much. Clients aren’t asking for digital photography. They are simply asking for photography– good photography.
no, we will hang on to it like we hang onto inches and feet instead of going to the metric system. =)