Alex Webb went digital?

A quote from Alex Webb (from the above posted link) on working digitally and how it affects editing:

"The great thing about digital is of course being able to see right away what you have done (and to be able to transmit if appropriate). I find it quite wonderful to look at what I have done each day in the evening. On the other hand, I feel that ideally I should wait a little longer before editing my work. It's easy to not be tough enough on oneself when transmitting right away... I am now re-editing the work and it looks stronger as a result. I suspect if I re-edit it six months from now it will be stronger yet."
 
I thought that Alex Gallery is most thoughtful and meaningful. Not all images are great but there is a definite social and artistic saying in it and good exploration of empty spaces in American towns. Its so common that its a tough subject to handle. I for one want to complement this artist for his work which has nothing to do with media.

I read some of the stuff here and couldn't make my mind if some mean what they say like: "if its not film its not art" or "digital=garbage" or they were just ironic. It reminded me the days when painters said same things about first cameras - pre film cameras.

Film has been around a lot longer so I assume more garbage has been created with film. Today digital is more in use so more garbage today is made with digital but even though digital has broaden the artistic pallet, there is really no way to say which one is artistically superior - all you can say to this affect is what you like more. I like both and more so, I like great pictures.

ymmv
 
I kind of like these pictures. I think they're technically bland and agree with the people who wish he had tweaked them more. But the point seems to be to capture a particular time and place, in a kind of egalitarian way, not to create great images.

Perhaps he's photographing for posterity here, not for the moment. That is, these aren't that artistically interesting, but together form a document that will be compelling in fifty years.
 
I am on a month long trip shooting nothing but Kodachrome. I have been shooting digital for 14 years, won some awards with it, sure it is nice, but compared to Kodachrome, it is....well......kind of....crap.

I know Alex, he a great shooter, shoots killer Kodachrome. I am not sure where to place my comments about this work.

But it looks digital, and you all know what I think of that now...🙂

........Sold my M8 not long ago, glad to be all Kodachrome in my M's....
 
... If all of us buy a single Kodachrome roll every month, Kodak might think twice about stopping its production.

Stop spending money on that useless digital junk and buy film!

🙂
 
I have my doubts that these photos would have been better using Kodakchrome ... But it's Alex Webb and Magnum so it must be great work...😛
 
KM-25 said:
I am on a month long trip shooting nothing but Kodachrome. I have been shooting digital for 14 years, won some awards with it, sure it is nice, but compared to Kodachrome, it is....well......kind of....crap.

I know Alex, he a great shooter, shoots killer Kodachrome. I am not sure where to place my comments about this work.

But it looks digital, and you all know what I think of that now...🙂

........Sold my M8 not long ago, glad to be all Kodachrome in my M's....
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This is big news, given your previous positions on digital. Do say more.

/T
 
Tuolumne said:
This is big news, given your previous positions on digital. Do say more.

/T
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I just like film better, especially Kodachrome. Digital will be around awhile, the other surely will not...

I think Alex should just shoot black and white film when Kodachrome departs, he is just too fine a film shooter to have to shoot digital...

Especially having his lenses cropped, I bet that drives him nuts.
 
As someone who has been going through PDDS (post digital depression syndrome), its good to hear that serious photographers are coming back from digital to film.
 
I saw Alex Webb give a lecture in NY less than a week ago. He said that he doesn't take digital pictures and is currently making his way through his hordes of kodachrome 200.

Alex webb is a great photographer. If I could make my pictures half as great as his, I'd be a happy boy.
 
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