Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 4/28/2005 3:20:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, montoid@earthlink.net writes: >From 1725 till Digital, traditional "photography" has involved primarily a physical/chemical process, so let's drop the word "photography" and call it "IT or Digital Imagery" and those involved can be Digital Imagers or Imagists... What is traditional photography; anything not digital? (by the way, that would be 1827 till digital.) That sure covers lots of ground. Popular Photography and Imaging magazine seems to agree with you enough to have changed their name. If you heark back to the earliest use of a camera, it was not a chemical thing at all, it was writing with light in the camera obscura first described in 5 BC by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti. When photography came along lots of artists were afraid that painting would cease to be a trade, and they would be unemployed. As another old codger who shoots film and digital, I'll probably keep on calling myself a photographer. "Imagist" seems pretentious, (kinda like in the schools, they call typing "keyboarding.") Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish