Time Article: "The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming"

[Lauffray]

I wonder if people ever get tired of announcing impending revolutionary changes all the time.

 

[krötenblender]

I wonder if people ever get tired of announcing impending revolutionary changes all the time.

That would be a revolutionary change in the media...

 

[BlackXList]

"A born manager" is a wonderful term, I'll be using that.

I thought the article was unintelligible.

 

[Rob-F]

Random pedantic jargon.

Edit: Make that "Arbitrary Pedantic Jargon." That's closer to what I meant.

 

[Dpingr1]

"The first step is to stop talking about the child it once was and to put away the sentimental memories of photography as we knew it for all these years."

Why must I put away what I love? I have no problem with computerized imaging at all, though I shoot mostly film. And of course, the nature of photography is evolving, as it has done since the days of Niépce. Why that places an artistic or moral imperative on us to move through some arbitrary rite de passage into photographic adulthood is beyond me. As an educator, I hear this stuff all the time -- if you don't embrace technological change, you're already a dinosaur. Usually, it comes from someone trying to sell something. What this writer is trying to sell is typically used as fertilizer around my part of the world. Dumb, unnecessary, and very pretentious.

 

[John E Earley]

I didn't even realize Time still existed.

 

[zauhar]

A breathless narrative from someone who knows lots about nothing in particular.

Randy

 

[icebear]

I am not making an effort to read the entire article...
This is already enough BS laden to stop reading
[Failure to recognize the huge changes underway is to risk isolating ourselves in an historical backwater of communication,
using an interesting but quaint visual language removed from the cultural mainstream.]

We are on RFF here right? Not really mainstream in the first place.
So couldn't care less about the whole article.

 

[Shirley Creazzo]

If a new technology for the delivery of images will make photography obsolete; then the invention of the of the camera would meant the demise of paintings.

 

[Ranchu]

I couldn't get through all the forced, extended metaphors, like someone screeching in my ear. Terrible writing. Isn't petapixel the usual purveyor of this kind of ****?

 

[Richard G]

Hey, he or the editor did at least keep "unimaginable" from occurring in the second half. I can't help thinking of maybe Gore Vidal on was it Jack Kerouac(?), "Not so much writing as typing."

 

[krötenblender]

The mindset of the responses to this collection of buzzword sentences (so called Time "article") is what makes me love RFF.

(And despite the Smiley, there is no irony in my words here.)

 

[krötenblender]

I couldn't get through all the forced, extended metaphors, like someone screeching in my ear. Terrible writing. Isn't petapixel the usual purveyor of this kind of ****?

And then, of all things, it was Petapixel, who posted this response to the time article. Not originally, it's a repost, but they took that one, instead of something like the Time article...
http://petapixel.com/2015/08/27/the-future-of-photography/

 

[nongfuspring]

Out of all the two pages of posts in this thread there are none that actually respond to the content of the article at all.

The point of the article is to talk about the use of metadata in photography the and (now virtually unlimited) power of post processing which is changing our relationship to the medium by (further) undermining the idea of facticity in photography. These ideas surely can't be controversial to anyone, what is getting everyone's backs up is that it has been bookended by clumsy and vaguely threatening sounding metaphors.

Nobody is coming to throw your Tri-X down the toilet, nobody is pooping on your hobby, please relax.

 

[Richard G]

Derek: "Yeah, well, fortunately for you, not too many people I know... read your little Time magazine, or whatever it's called." Zoolander

 

[JP Owens]

Photography is, at best, the creation of abstract artifacts. Handwringing odes to increasing abstraction seem pointless. Just snap photos of whatever you like using whatever you have.

 

[esearing]

From the same magazine that brought us the coming ice age in the 70's to global warming in the 2000's .... Yeah I believe every thing they write.

We interact with computers and graphical user interfaces in a different way than we interact with a photograph. The creation of visual information/commercial imagery, vs an artistic photograph are also different mindsets. Tools used are only relevant to the creator.

oh and FYI... Al Gore's timeline for the end of the world is less than 6 months away. Make sure you stock up on film.

 

[johnnyrod]

Proof that media articles are more about headlines than content, were it needed. I re-started in photography last year having never heard of a rangefinder, and it's been a brief but fast journey. At the moment (for me) I think photography is like art, only the actual picture taking bit is quite quick, unlike painting, but the same composition, story-telling and so on is still there - and there are some great examples of this kicking around this forum. So as said a numebr of times above, the medium itself is really secondary - you can do a sketch with a piece of chalk you found outside, or a mass-produced 21st century pencil, it's still a drawing of the same thing that will be good or bad.

I didn't even realize Time still existed.

That's so deep I can't think of a suitable reply.

 

[emraphoto]

A breathless narrative from someone who knows lots about nothing in particular.

Randy

i am assuming you know who the author is?

 

[sevo]

I can't even read that thing - on Chrome it displays without a scroll bar. If the content is as flawed as the coding, simply forget about it...