Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Long Exposure


The death and resurrection of photography in a digitized world

by Jennifer Allen @ FRIEZE

Photography is dead. That news may come as a surprise, since obituaries about art tend to be written about painting. Invented in the 1830s, photo-graphy is still in its infancy as an art form compared to the centuries-old medium of painting. Despite inventions like portable paint tubes and fast-drying acrylic, painting has not undergone the transformations that digitalization is bringing to the medium of photography.

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