Ok, Seriously how dead is...
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- lukus_W0
The process of capturing one moment in time will always be something that humanity aspires to master.
- TheRapture0
I think photography is currently less dead than at any time in history
- TheRapture0
as motion becomes more ubiquitous, the magic of stopped time becomes increasingly valuable
- you're stopping time 24 times a second with motion. that's valuable times 24, right?M_C_P
- jetSkii0
some people believe it steals your soul
- that was like 100 years ago dudeclearThoughts
- to this dayneowe
- ItalianStallion0
Photography killed video.
That's my opinion.
- ItTango0
People love to proclaim the death of things, and here we go again. Photography and video are two different mediums. One may inspire or inform the other... but not replace.
While I find some video beautifully captivating (e.g. Nuit Blanche/Spy Films), they are not substitutes for the moments in time captured by the likes of Gordon Parks, Avedon, Van Der Zee, and others.
Just my opinion.
- I think they are the same medium. A photo is to a film what a poster is to a book, both time basedBaskerviIle
- plash0
Not at all. its like saying computers killed the pen and paper.
- BaskerviIle0
There are more cameras around today than ever before, pretty much all phones even have them built in, not to mention webcams on computers.
Flickr and its culture has allowed people to take and share their photos like never before.
I would argue that anyone with a camera is a photographer. I don't buy the argument that only shots taken on and slr or medium format are real photos. and iphone or even a gameboy camera are just as valid as image making tools.
I have no time for photography nerds who are obsessed with the technical side (all those fricking long exposures of rivers etc). Look at the quality of some 'professional' photgraphers, and it's no better than a lot of the stuff on flickr.Then go to getty images and look at the bulk of those shot all taken by 'professionals' most are terrible, and then go back to flickr and tell me that there aren't a hell of a lot of great shots on there taken by rank amateurs.
Of course there are some great professionals out there, masters. But there are also some really really dull pros out there too.
I'm all for the democratisation of photography. The more people that take photos the better chance we have of some great photography existing (yes and lots of crap too).
I'd say photography is more alive than ever before.
- ItTango0
@Baskerville: Different as in still vs moving.
With video, your story unfolds over a series of frames. In the photograph, your entire tale resides in a single image.
And I agree, "...more alive than ever before".
- BaskerviIle0
yes, a video is a photograph over time
and what I was saying was if you make an analogy to the overall discipline of graphic design then a book is a poster over time.
but both book design and poster design come under the category of graphic design.likewise still and movies are both photograph.
look in the end credits of any movie and you will see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cin… otherwise known as Director of Photography
look at the definition of photography:
"Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor"I say, same discipline. different techniques and skills but same discipline for sure
- epic_rim0
Go visit Boston Big Picture for twenty minutes
- user_00110
Not dead at all. Seriously.
- ItTango0
yes, yes, yes... it's all about capturing the image(s). but a poster does not a book make, and glancing at a book nailed to a wall just doesn't work. this my point - not they involve a different set of tools, but that the thought process is different.
it is composition of a different sort.
- not the best analogy but they are the same discipline. A good movie should have great composition, lighting etc just like a stillBaskerviIle
- krisscott210
- this post is bullshit, it's not about the medium, let people create what and how they want, we'll all be the judgesBaskerviIle
- neowe0
wasn't film originally called moving pictures?