Another post in a continuing discussion (joining this post last week) about the future of photography.
Is photography over? Of course not. But a provocative title none the less (appropriated from SFMOMA) suggesting we think more deeply about what photography was, what it now is, and where it’s going. This video here is part 1 of 3 from a great symposium back in April 2010 sponsored by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art featuring Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter Galassi (MOMA), Vince Aletti (New Yorker), Jennifer Blessing (Guggenheim) and others. Interesting, insightful and evocative IMHO.
If you like this, parts 2 and 3 are avail here via I Heart Photography. More video, plus transcripts avail on the SFMOMA site here.
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That’s pretty bold, but I think anyone who has done some research or studying in Photographic theory will surely know it isn’t over or will ever be. Even if you compare it to the likes of video. Painting, Photography, and Film are all different mediums, but I think you know that very well.
As I listened to their debate about whether photography was over – in essence somehow destroyed by the evolution of the digital camera and the demise of chemical processing, I kept looking at the black and white images I shot over the weekend. I managed to get four shots this weekend that I really loved, that I felt conveyed what I was trying to say when I took them.
It didn’t matter to me that I shot these pictures with a digital camera, or that I developed them on my computer instead of in a darkroom. All that mattered to me was that I got four shots this weekend that converyed what I was trying to capture when I pushed the shutter release.
Isn’t that what photography is all about. Isn’t that what it has always been about. I got four pictures this weekend – that is a great weekend!
What about the photographic industry, though? Is it true that, for high-end commercial and editorial work, the still photographer will be displaced by the videographer?