by kyle cassidy
| Will digital replace chemical photography? Certainly it will, it's only a question of time. As digital resolution increases celluloid film and darkrooms will fade from use. Instant gratification will replace anxious waiting. But what will we leave behind and where will it all lead? Digital photography, by it's very nature, is different from conventional photography -- costs per image become at first trivial and finally non-existent, the medium becomes archival and and intangeable at the same time. In a thousand years will there be a great chasm of empty space where once we kept our memories? -- Because of it's accessibility, it's inexpense, and it's instant accessibility digital can be more intimate than chemical photography. These twenty-one images are snapshots of little import brought to fruition in a project that would have been tedious in print. This is what we will see as the digital revolution progresses -- imagist poems in pictures -- seconds and slices of lives of those we don't know. By being accessible, we will lose professionalism -- as desktop publishing ruined the art of typesetting so will this simple new photography break our rules and expectations and give voice to millions. A Jennicam for everyone. We will lose our photo editors and our conventions but we will gain a world-wide consciousness. . |
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