Digital Photography Art

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Is digital photography art?

I happen to love the method of creating art, and most digital photograpy seems to just not have it for me. A darkroom, chemicals, and a long strip of 35mm is what I want.

But I want to hear both sides. Give me your best arguement. Is digital photgraphy art? Is it a means to an end? Did it kill film? Is there any other way to do photographic art these days?

And if you side with me: what makes standard photography so special anyway? By the time it reaches product stage, what does it do that digital photography can't?

Have you embraced every painting you have ever seen? Every sculpture, opera, concerto? Just because a medium does not appeal to you does not make it any less of an artform.

If elephant crap and dead pigs qualify as art, why the heck not digital photography? Because the image can be manipulated with Photoshop after it’s taken? It still has to be taken in the first place. You can’t turn a photo of your bedroom wall into the Eiffel Tower at sunset. (But you can put the Eiffel Tower at sunset onto a photo of your bedroom wall if you’re creative enough.)

Have you ever seen the time and effort artists put into their Photoshop creations, transforming a handful of pixels into a representation of their vision? Does it mean less because they don’t come out stinking of chemicals?

Have you ever seen the artist whose computer just hiccuped, two hours into a project? Is it any less agonising than spilling your chemicals or having mom open the door at just that crucial moment and ruin your prints?

But none of that is relevant.
To decry any method or medium as capable of producing art is to totally fail to recognise that art is created by the human artist, influenced by the world around him, and freely expressing his thoughts, feelings, passions, ideas, vision.

Art is not created by the camera or the paintbrush or the cleaver. Art is created by man. The tools are just tools. The same piece of wood may be a walking stick or a crutch.

Did photography kill paints and brushes?

Did paints and brushes kill charred sticks and crushed berries?

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