2007-12-09 18:01:17 · 9 answers · asked by Doop De Doop 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Do you mean famous or popular modern photography?
If you are referring to the huge number of pictures that people have put online on flikr and the like, all that's happened is that digial photography has put the art into the hands of the masses.
Everyone likes taking pictures, and now that it's so cheap and easy, we all do it.
I don't think the quality of professional photography has gone down - if anything, it has got better. Cheap digital cameras have allowed people who would never have got into it in the first place to experiment and achieve what only the pros would have been able to do 20 years ago.
I agree that Raw format and photoshop has taken a lot of the skill out of photography, where you can fix any problems with a shot after the event. It makes you lazy, and you tend to go for quantity over quality, but it means that you're more likely to get 'the shot' than by using the old fashioned method.
I understand why the 'old school' photographers feel much maligned by the new way of doing things - it's an art form that takes years of experience and practice to get right in a dark room, but now, anyone can take comparable photos with a £500 camera and a hooky copy of Photoshop.
But to call the average kid taking fun snaps for his flikr album young and dumb is a bit harsh - I'd hope you wouldn't critique a toddler's finger painting the same way just because they haven't tried to 'capture the light' in the way that Monet did...
2007-12-09 21:05:25 · answer #1 · answered by Jules C 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it will hit critical mass and settle down just like web site development did. A few years ago, everyone thought they could just put up a web site on their own, but that finally faded away and the people who really know what they're doing are the ones doing it now for the most part.
Same will go for photography. Once the novelty of instant pictures wears off, real photographers will get back to business and the rest of us will revert to snapshots of the kids and summer vacations.
2007-12-09 18:39:15 · answer #2 · answered by koyaanisqats1 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-22 10:42:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
enormous unfocused energy, its what young people do best.
mix that with a new technology that allows people to talk with imagery. result zillions of mostly useless pics. as i recall that is history repeating itself viz anyone remember the kodak brownie camera that bought photography to the masses for the first time?
2007-12-09 19:06:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Same as always. Nothing new.
http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/photography/
2007-12-09 18:05:18 · answer #5 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hey you sjouldnt pick on young photographers, how do u know that is not there passion? i am 18 myself and absoloutly love photography and i have since i was about 12.
2007-12-09 20:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by trent4kala 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm glad Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon were young and dumb once.
2007-12-09 18:08:26 · answer #7 · answered by V2K1 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's not just photography either...
2007-12-09 19:05:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Every kid plays baseball/soccer/football but few grow up to be pros.
2007-12-09 18:24:34 · answer #9 · answered by Dawg 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋