THE POWER OF NOW

Having said all that in the previous post- and I am extremely reluctant to admit this- but I took the photo for this ad with the iPhone.

THE MANY AND THE FEW

It's incredibly clear, recently, the craft of photography, and the appreciation for it, has rapidly changed. The emphases now less on process and instead on production. A photographs currency has been greatly diminished as a result of the market flooded. We are each owners of thousands of photographs, their preferred storage, quotidian and practical, but also precarious, our mobile phone and laptop. There is something extremely ephemeral about the new nature of photography and our relationship with it is equally as transient. Perhaps it's worth considering something so easily produced should be so easily lost.  I use an image from Tina Barney to recall the tragically defunct Polaroid. We have more now, more images, more devices at our disposal, but the effect and effectiveness of our current obsession with picture taking and it's methods remains to be seen in the long term. And after all, photography exists in extremely large part as the treasure of then. Yet as it is becoming, the chintz of right now.