Is it possible to create art with digital?

[MarkoKovacevic]

Not bashing digital(I use it myself) but I find it difficult to use in an artistic fashion, especially for BW. It feels too clean, too restrictive, too unorganic versus traditional. What's your take?

 

[andredossantos]

Of course it's possible.

 

[Sparrow]

... art and digital in the same sentence eh? interesting

 

[Nomad Z]

Define 'art'.

 

[Bike Tourist]

Whether or not art is produced lies with the creator and the beholder. The medium is irrelevant.

(I'm sure you knew that.)

 

[wallace]

Have you ever heard of Andreas Gursky? You can easily spend $ 1000 000 and more for one of his prints.....

 

[Richard G]

Art from 1s and 0s? Look, there are 10 types of photographers in this debate: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

 

[dave lackey]

In a word. Yes.

I think I understand your question as one of being unsure about the clean digital files, etc.

But, absolutely, art is not created by the tool but by the photographer.

Have done it for years.

Here is a good example of a friend who is doing quite well since he went from film to digital when the D700 came out:

http://www.billynewmanphotography.com/

It is quite common. Different in some regards, but common.🙂

 

[Bobfrance]

Define 'art'.

Define 'Define'. 🙄

 

[Sparrow]

... 'accurately describe'?

 

[btgc]

yes, one can create digital art

🙂

 

[thegman]

If it can be done with film, then it can be done with digital. It may not "feel" like though, IMHO, due to the disposable/duplicate-able nature of digital and maybe strange feeling of a lack of authenticity.

I think that there is no difference between film's ability to contain "art" or a file on a computer, but it's hard to imagine a time when someone buys an original photo at Sotheby's or the like for £100k, and the auctioneer requests an email address to send the file to. Or perhaps you just get an FTP login to download your purchase.

A print and a negative at least has a uniqueness.

 

[btgc]

Just got insight - to make a limited set of prints an art, all memory cards with files used to make them have to be destroyed 😀

 

[kossi008]

There are two things to distinguish here:
(a) it's possible
(b) I still can't do it. 😀

 

[kanzlr]

... strange feeling of a lack of authenticity.

interesting. I feel that digital records authentically, while film already filters the image through all the defects and imperfections it imposes.

 

[Keith]

Too many people are assuming digital needs to follow in the footsteps of analog photography to have any artistic credibility.

Digital is it's own master and needs to bow to no other medium IMO!

 

[efix]

Ken Rockwell says only pictures taken with analog cameras can ever be considered art. And he must know. Question answered, end of discussion.

 

[jsrockit]

You can't be asking this as a serious question right? You can't really believe this... :bang:

 

[crispy12]

Maybe.....

 

[regularchickens]

It's about the content, not the medium.