Living Through the Lens
More Than Just a Snapshot
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” ~ Susan Sontag
Often times the lens of a camera can catch a moment in time that narrates the plight of an entire generation. These stunning photos shared by Deep Spirits are definetly ones for history books.
How has the digital age changed the art form of photography?
In the article Art photography: When 'reality isn't good enough' posted by CNN explores how photography as an art form has changed in the digital era.
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Photography evolved out of a long history of art forms, painted portraits and realism that aimed to represent reality. Photography helped diminish that quality of art, and the response was abstraction paintings.
"One of the directions photography is going in is expressionistic," Brandt said. "That could transform photography the same way that photography transformed painting."
Those of you that value photography as art, have you notice the shift that has been brought on by the digital age? Would you agree that photography is becoming a bit more expressionistic?
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