Saturday, March 6, 2004
Digital Killed The Art Photo Star?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 04:00 PM
"Artist David Hockney, who created photo collage works in the 1980s, has said digital manipulation will kill off photography as an art form. Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or true. He also said art photography was "dull" and that it was inferior to painting.
But Russell Roberts of the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV said Hockney's argument was "simplistic". Hockney also said war photography was cast in doubt due to digital advancement. He cited the case during the Iraq war when the Los Angeles Times sacked a photographer for superimposing two images to make them more powerful."
It's become harder and harder to trust the digital images that you might see now, and what's worse is that the mainstream news is so afraid of missing a scoop, they'll run with a photo before verifying it's authenticity. And it's become even harder to verify authenticity, because it's no longer a simple matter of going back to the negatives. Can we ever trust photos again?
But Russell Roberts of the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV said Hockney's argument was "simplistic". Hockney also said war photography was cast in doubt due to digital advancement. He cited the case during the Iraq war when the Los Angeles Times sacked a photographer for superimposing two images to make them more powerful."
It's become harder and harder to trust the digital images that you might see now, and what's worse is that the mainstream news is so afraid of missing a scoop, they'll run with a photo before verifying it's authenticity. And it's become even harder to verify authenticity, because it's no longer a simple matter of going back to the negatives. Can we ever trust photos again?
