Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital is not photography (was long - shorter but still off topic)
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:19:33 -0500

tintypes, platinum prints, daguerrotypes, c-prints, dye transfer, pinhole
photos, paper negatives, are all subsets of photography, just as silver
halide photography is a subset of... just as digital photography is a subset
of... what's the problem here.

A camera is a box with a lens at one end and a light sensitive material at
the other. A photograph is an image produced by a camera. Why is it more
complicated than that.

By all means talk about chemical photography or traditional photography if
you feel the need to. But digital isn't photography? So people who use
digital cameras aren't photographers? Hmmm. What about hybrid approaches?

I sense angels putting on their tutus and the sewing box creaking open.



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Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com