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"She'll have fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the Leica away!" 😀
She'll have to find it first.. Daddy is keeping a close eye on his Leica.. 😀
"She'll have fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the Leica away!" 😀
It means do to fast information and everyone being an artist these days, that there are fewer ideas left.
My point being that every young person trying to come up with ideas is going to just think of 100,000 ideas first that someone else has done to death. It is pretty hard to make a body of work that is avant-garde.
Art has almost always been about exhausting itself. It just happens faster as more powerful tools like information, air tools, etc, are available.
I remember the movie titled "A River Runs Through It" which was affectionately called "The Movie". It created a whole generation of fly fishers. They moved across the landscape, fishing, buying, writing, tying, exploring and then got new interests.
I think 'film" photography will have a similar trajectory.
Funny, I often read people complaining about everyone going digital and thinking they are the next big thing, not taking photography seriously. Then, when students/younger generation actually attempt to learn and try analogue, there seems to be a underlying cynicism/backlash, instantly discounting it to "trendy", "unoriginal" or "not taking it serious"
Are you saying ideas are limited?
The truth is the digital crowd annoys me because they take pictures of EVERYTHING. It just gets spent out and stupid after awhile, and there is an incredible amount of throw away digitals purchased.
In a way. The problem is so much has happened at such a fast rate that original ideas are difficult to come up with. You have to spend half your time searching to check if someone has already done whatever, if you want to do something original.
With film it is/was too expensive and time consuming to snap 1000 pictures on a saturday afternoon firing away at EVERYTHING "to see what you got" and delete 9999 pictures afterwards 😉Before digital, this was all done with film and ****ty film cameras. Time have not changed...just the tools have.
With film it is/was too expensive and time consuming to snap 1000 pictures on a saturday afternoon firing away at EVERYTHING "to see what you got" and delete 9999 pictures afterwards 😉
In a way. The problem is so much has happened at such a fast rate that original ideas are difficult to come up with. You have to spend half your time searching to check if someone has already done whatever, if you want to do something original.
The constraint really is that society at large on a global level is pretty well unchanged. Things happen but how we view life has not really seen any radical changes lately. We have just kind of consolidated everything. The US being a "melting pot" has extensively "melted" everything together. China town might look different - because it makes money - but all the kids have their Ipods and skinny jeans anyway.
In order to create an original body of work you have to explore an idea rather, not just bringing something into existence that is not quiet the same as something else. That is a true challenge these days at the rate ideas have been shared and exercised with the Internet etc.
Apparently photographers are just as bad as bike messengers and skateboarders when it comes to classifying others as "posers". I'm just happy to meet fellow travelers and know that in theory both mediums can coexist.
I can understand being a poser in skateboarding or photography... and by that I mean pretend to make photos or skate, but never actually do it.
How and why would someone "pose" as a bike messenger? Isn't that more of a job than anything else (despite the subculture)?