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film vs pixels
Posted By: D. Brian Nelson (216.55.130.185)
In Response To: Greetings
Location: San Diego
Date: Sunday, 7 March 2004, at 4:39 p.m.
(Henry Butz)
"My own opinion is that the word 'fine' in 'fine-art' automatically excludes anything taken with a digital camera."
The "fine" comes from German "schoen" (yes, I know that should have been an umlaut) and means "beautiful." Nevertheless, I agree that digital is a lesser form of art than film, as film is a lesser form than painting. Digital photography is slowly being accepted, but as noted below, it's still a "special case" and not placed in the same category as photography (no modifier required).
Comparatively, a painter spends his life learning to paint. A photographer spends a significant part of his life learning to use his tools. And a digital photographer picks up a camera and spends a few hours learning Photoshop. (That was simplified for effect.)
Though almost all of my magazine and book work is now delivered digitally, all of my gallery work and everything in my real portfolio is still photographic (read: light-writing) prints.
If a digital camera ever produces the same amount of data in the same lighting conditions, depicts yellows adequately, and costs a reasonable amount, I will still not downgrade, as for me the process of my art is at least as important to me as the product. Heck, I'm not sold on auto exposure or autofocus yet. I think those are for people who don't know how to use a camera.
Art is the doing. It is the process. Digital photography is a process, yes, and it will eventually be recognized as art, but it IS NOT THE SAME AS PHOTOGRAPHY.
-Don
One more thing. It is important that an artist understand his tools. Can anyone here build an enlarger? (Sure, most of us old guys can.) Can anyone write image processing software?
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