Photography as art is absolutely changed by new technologies. Firstly, you mention film but film itself is technology that greatly advanced throughout its life

Photography as art is absolutely changed by new technologies. Firstly, you mention film but film itself is technology that greatly advanced throughout its life and enabled incredibly different forms of art. Secondly, technology like digital sensors have allowed for millions of people to make expressions of art that would not have been possible otherwise. Shooting film and developing it is romantic to some. But there’s nothing absolute about it.