Conscientious | Nothing New Under the Sun?
Joerg Colberg over at Conscientious has hit it on the head... current contemporary photography is all the same and has all been done before. I don't know what they are teaching these kids in college but if I see one more series of "deadpan" portraits of teenagers or generation-X, Y or Z, taxidermied animals in unnatural or unrealistic settings, out of focus miniature figures, or HDR/InfiniteDOF, I think I will lose my lunch.
At this point photography is essentially dead. And with Kodak increasingly putting more nails in our coffins (film photographers) I may just give it up and try painting or pastels.
JSP Visual Week In Review ~ 11.23.24
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Rich, so this is no different than at any other time. Mediocrity is persistent and perennial. It wins sometimes simply because it is so persistent. But things have a way of balancing themselves out in the end. There is a lot of junk photography that is promoted today, but in a few years, it will be less prevalent.
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