It's odd to me how some people think making images with an iPhone is somehow "cheating" or "too easy" or "not real photography". All photographs are manipulated. A camera is a camera, a machine that fixes the effects of light on a medium. A post-processing "app" is a darkroom. Just not so smelly. So while I have some admiration for purists and curmudgeons and luddites for their staunch stubbornness and pinhole vision, I will embrace any invention that makes life more fun and allows me to do what I want to do and doesn't spoil the planet. Maybe iPhones + apps put creative possibilities in too many grubby hands; maybe camera gadgetry and darkroom alchemy sent us down a sinful and impure path from the beginning; and maybe any art that isn't scratched into a cave wall with a rock is too damned easy. But I don't think so.
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Imagine the horror as Flug, the elder of the two younger caveman twins, Spork & Ork, began mixing water with coloured power pigments made from the dried, pulverized innards of last week’s Mammoth kill; then painting antelope figures on the cave wall with a finely crafted stick. Surely he was ridiculed by his brothers and told that it was not “pure cave-art”. After all true cave artists don’t use sticks, only stones.
ReplyDeleteLove that image! Also the words...also I sympathize with Flug and all the Flugs of the world.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you just PAINT; do it the honest way.
ReplyDelete"making images," "light on a medium," ""creative possibilities","doesn't spoil the planet," "art." Call the head shrinker, Satchmo, this boy's confused!
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