'Vintage Portrait Experience'

Thanks. Interesting stuff. The current US poet laureate doesn't have a computer at all but surely must have a typewriter. I've read The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. He makes some excellent points. The historical chapters on the guilds are interesting. The book is very badly edited from a structural point of view. Young people are wonderful the way they won't let the good things die out.
 
It's a shame to let the good things die; hopefully the best made, most functional and beautiful will carry on whether analogue or digital.
 
I've often thought that portrait work would be one of the few professional practices where silver-based photography might remain viable and even desirable.
 
Wow, the comments in the Guardian article sure don't agree with most of us here at RFF. The world moves on, I suppose. At least we can take comfort in our own little niche we've carved out for ourselves (film) for awhile yet.
 
I didn't read all of them. Of those I did, most appreciated analog. Those that didn't were mostly two line throwaway screeds from camera store salespersons. You start to recognize them after a while. : )
 
Why are people so enamored with film? It's been used forever, is still in use, and will be used for many years. We have a thread like this a few times a week. :)
 
Well there's a lot to talk about - the advent of the digital sensor (I'd say) is the biggest innovation in still photography since Eastman introduced the roll-film camera in 1888.
 
jsrockit said:
Why are people so enamored with film? It's been used forever, is still in use, and will be used for many years. We have a thread like this a few times a week. :)
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You forgot one thing.
Film has been gone from most people's mind.

If you don't do anything, it will be gone forever.
Is that what you wish to happen?
 
jsrockit said:
Why are people so enamored with film?
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People like to be different, especially now when everything is standardized, individuality is crushed and sameness is everywhere.

Photographers are no different, they like to be different, their work stand out and their individuality is expressed. So, film being marginalized, analogue and difficult makes it appealing, not to mention they way it looks.

People know that their 10 megapixel image of today will look like crap to 100 megapixel of ten years from now, as the digital images from ten years ago compares to new sensors. they also know that by adding to digital 'ocean' of images their drops of still photos, they're engaged in a futile pursuit. So, film is more of a revolt against digital samness than anything aesthetically different, and people by nature like to revolt in the face of sameness and boredom.
 
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