Rise of the camera-phone photographer
January 20, 2010 2 Comments
Used to be when you wanted to “make a picture” (as they say down South) you had to send it in to be developed into a Space Station 13-type pod at the Kodak store or local pharmacy. That is, if you didn’t have your own developing room, a pitch-black room illuminated with a scary red light and consumed with the smell of old bread and skunk pee.
But that’s what it took to be a photographer, an art form that paid off big time in the form of magazines, posters and photo albums.
But some photographers see this new technology and they don’t like it.
“I’m old-school, all this digital stuff makes it too easy,” said one commenter on an internet forum. “Photography is a craft, and these people are killing it.”
Is that true? With the emergence of Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, Zanga, ect, people are taking their own shots, if only for profile pics. In the photo you’ll usually see them pointing the camera-phone at a mirror. Viola.
But with the rise of the do-it-all camera, photography is being set back a 100 years. Not only are people not interested in the “science” and “art” of photo-taking (quick, what does aperture mean?) but people are snapping photos with the phone in them.
It’s become so common place that the art of photography as we know it is slowly dying. Curse you, Internet!
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