Interesting article in the Guardian. Worth a read.
The death of photography: are camera phones destroying an artform?
The death of photography: are camera phones destroying an artform?
Check out BBW's Flickr stream sometime. She's been shooting with nothing but an iPhone for many months now, maybe a year or more, and she does some BEAUTIFUL photography with that little light capturing device. The medium (or tool) isn't the message - the message is the message......the mere fact that I will never use a portable telephone to capture light, makes me think that photography is not dead......
Check out BBW's Flickr stream sometime. She's been shooting with nothing but an iPhone for many months now, maybe a year or more, and she does some BEAUTIFUL photography with that little light capturing device. The medium (or tool) isn't the message - the message is the message.
I took a better picture of the Mona Lisa getting mobbed
No, I got that. But it could easily be taken to imply that cell phone photography was a lesser beast (which much of it surely is) and that's obviously not the case...My response was directed at the writer's assertion that the proliferation of camera phones were killing traditional photography. I never meant to imply (and don't think that I did) that camera phone photographs are any less of a photograph than one taken with a traditional picture-taking device.