SuperflyTNT wrote:
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point that's missed here is that ..... there are so
many more pictures taken with cellphones is that
most of these photos would have never been taken
before the days of camera phones.
EVERYBODY is documenting EVERYTHING now.
And that last line, "EVERYBODY is documenting
EVERYTHING now." is not just about hardware
and market share. It's about "visual literacy" as
an evolving thing. The total immersion in image
making that is now ubiquitous has rewritten the
message that any photograph delivers ... even
all the classic images in museums and "History
of Photography" textbooks. All those images are
now "down off their pedestals". And without the
pedestal, the viewer see them as vernacular, as
snaps the viewer might have made, or would've
NEVER been moved to make ... "bones in desert
sand ? why ? who cares ?"
Peeps are ALWAYS dredging up Grandpa Ansel,
so I will do the same. Why not apply for a grant
to travel as an Ansel Adams look alike to all his
vaunted vistas, and update them ... As an AA
impostor, take selfies in front of Half Dome and
Henandez Moonrise and all the AA classic spots.
Plenty of "artistes" tote their sheet film rigs to
these places and plant their tripod spikes into
the well worn holes ... and have no audience for
their "art". But the "AA Selfies Re-do" ? That will
likely get primo gallery and museum space !
.