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A World Without Clouds: early attempts to make photos look more like the world
- grawprog 6y ago>Colored photographs occupy an undeservedly questionable situation: the artist curls his lip at them, and the photographer regards them with a sneer. The one says they are no paintings, the other that they are no photographs; thus the art of photographic coloring, unrecognized by either This reminds me of the early days of computer graphics. I remember many traditional artists looking down on the technology, while many digital artists got started without much traditional background. These days though, much art is made as a combination of both and in the end, most art most people see these days end up being represented as scanned digital images on the internet.
- qubex 6y agoI remember Clifford Pickover describe computer art being beneath the artists because they didn’t like the “plastic guts aesthetic” of early procedural renders.
- qubex 6y agoJust a chance to highly recommend a subscription to Lapham’s Quarterly. A few back issues helped considerably with my experience of the lockdown (the first one, in case we have to start numbering them).