Comments on: Is Photography Over?

By: Wiley Eull

Wiley Eull — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:24:24 +0000

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By: chris

chris — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:11:52 +0000

Why its time to get serious about where value is; what society is, what it has become and why the important people in Art – curators of important institutions and artist need to lead the way now that our rulers have proven to be morally void with-in a delusion. And THAT includes photography.

http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/04/andrew-maguires-life-threatened-after-exposing-systemic-fraud-by-cftc-and-jp-morgan/

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/3/30_Andrew_Maguire_&_Adrian_Douglass_files/Andrew%20Maguire%203%3A30%3A2010.mp3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA20Am0pwtA&feature=player_embedded#

By: lyle rexer

lyle rexer — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:44:59 +0000

All you have to do is spend a little time with kids to understand that “photography” cannot really die because it is not a single thing — it has multiple uses and audiences, and those are changing, or rather, the use of images in our culture is various and expanding. It strikes me that the debate — and certainly the characterization of photography offered by Fried — resembles something Frank Zappa once said, about ” a couple of old farts sitting around talking about rock n roll.” The most moving, funny, evocative, mysterious, challenging images are being made right now — just as they were 160 years ago.

By: Vance Maverick

Vance Maverick — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:41:25 +0000

So, having stirred up this unusual flurry of comment, will the poster be following up? Or was this a drive-by?

By: Kenneth Grzesik

Kenneth Grzesik — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:43:37 +0000

“When one thinks of photomontage, photograms, photographic pictorialism, and the infinite resources of digital photography and digital imaging more generally, the notion that photography might be “over” seems just a bit hasty.”

I’ll drink to that.

By: Vilis Inde

Vilis Inde — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:27:36 +0000

This is a great topic and requires a nuanced answer. Photography, as with painting and other traditional form of art media, are exceptionally difficult. There are so many “fine art photographers.” How many more Nan Goldin knock-offs do we need? How many girls in prom dresses in a corn or hay field do we really want to see. So, the problem with photography is that so much “new” photography has been seen before.
It is imperative for a fresh photographer to bring a new concept to the table. This may be based on subject matter (very difficult) or new ways to use the medium of photography. Personally, I find “nonobjective” photography, such as that of Erika Blumenfeld or Ellen Carey (when she is at her best) to be exciting and fresh.
Photography sometimes seems like it could come to a close. For example, many of the well-known contemporary German photographers are doing little more than taking the architecture, etc. of previous German photographers and simply providing larger prints that are in color. That, in my opinion, is quite dead.
But there will be creative artists who will find new ways to say new things….Unfortunately, we are inundated with photographic images. Blumenfeld’s light recordings are exceptional in content and are exquisite in their elegance (& minimalism). Why not explore minimalist concepts though photography – as one possible avenue?
Stretch beyond the familiar & new things will come.

By: Alice N

Alice N — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:11:07 +0000

Any art form / technique gains and loses exponents from time to time as artists find other ways to express themselves. Future artists will no doubt use photography in ways we cannot foresee, to express concepts we are unaware of.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:17:31 +0000

Photography doesn’t happen without a photographer. With in the art world, which is feudal and a tight hierarchy if there is a problem it has to be seen within that context of ‘who has the power to give value’ and wider still – the influences upon them which in power institutions are financial and of the wider world. The question is for them – how photographers are incentivised or not ? As one artist said to me today: ‘it really is amazingly unregulated, and like the wild west. Being an artist you have no control’

By: Patricia Wells

Patricia Wells — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:27:11 +0000

I agree with the assertion Michael Fried makes when he states that photography has become “an art as never before”. Photography has always been an artistic medium the requires technological tools. The inclusion of digital tools to the medium of Photography has only broadened the means for expression for those Artists that use photography as their form of art making.

By: Brian Routh

Brian Routh — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:15:55 +0000

photography is changing …..it is embracing digital media and becoming enhanced as the tools change…..it has been changing since the first camera……with the introduction of new and improved lenses, shutters, lighting techniques, darkroom and optical effects and now digital enhancement, photoshop, software and computer applications…….it is never over therefore………maybe for those artists who cling to the past and old techniques, who feel threatened by new ideas and new tools and improvements…….maybe they might feel that something is over……..but not to me……I am forever excited about the changes in digital media……..and I’m an old fart!