Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Is Photography Over?
Is Photography Over? Many artistic and informative voices have been put together to discuss this very question. Many say that it has just started a "mutation" into modernity. Others say that it is over and it has been for some time now, its reached the end of it "life cycle" and its "zenith of popularity only to be superseded" (Blessing). The rapidly changing world comes with rapidly changing mediums for the art institution. Does this mean that because photography as a medium has changed too much, it cannot continue to be called photography? "The tradition keeps extending itself even if, in order to do so, it has to mutate into something which may not look or sound like what has gone before" (Dyer). The content of photography has stayed relatively the same but the ways in which images are created has changed. Photography is growing. We no longer use scratches of symbols on walls to communicate through writing, we have letters to create words on paper. Like language or any other evolving institution or structure, photography is ever evolving which would insinuate its immortality.
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