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Photography Is Dead. Just Admit It and Move On. There Is No Hope

• turtleyacht 4y ago
  > I took [the photo] because that is what I do. I am a photographer. I plan on keeping that status.
• chiefalchemist 4y ago
  > Now anyone could be a photographer! False. The more accurate statement: Now anyone could take photos. Being a photographer and taking photos are not the same thing. We see lots a great images on Instagram. Many people with nice devices, an index finger, lots of luck and an eye to know what to not share. Would you hire them to work your wedding? In short, taking pictures is not photography any more than being in the kitchen breaking a sweat and making a meal makes someone a chef. <sidebar> There's the same confusion about journalism. Simply publishing something (on the internet) is not necessarily journalism. The idea that anything reported is by definition journalism is both foolish and false. There's more to it than that. Much more. Sadly, the media doesn't know this. These professions would fare better if they simply defended the standard definitions of their craft. </sidebar>
• jschveibinz 4y ago
  Photography is a craft, to be enjoyed first and foremost by the photographer. Opinion: we may have lost touch with the joy of doing things for the sake of the experience. Showing others is not the goal—-we need to show ourselves.