This is a good article on NPR that talks about the resurgence of the old school. I feel like this seems to be true concerning art, fashion, music, etc. in today's culture. What do you think? Are you old school, new school, or new old school?
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Thanks for posting this. The full essay linked at the bottom of the article is very good as well. Personally, I hope this trend dies out fast; nostalgia, while being a strangely good feeling, hinders progress and creates stubbornness. It's easy to look to the past and consider it to be the "good old times", it's the same for every generation.
People did great things with film and outdated processes throughout history, but that doesn't mean they just took snapshots and stopped there, deciding that their choice of medium was the end of the creative process.
I could teach my mom to take a snapshot of her house using Portra 160 and just think it's the coolest thing ever because the colors are unique. Anyone can. It's our knowledge and expression as artists that set us arpart from the crowd.
Take some of Ian's work. Last year (forgive me but I forgot the name of the project) he showed us a very carefully thought out series that could have stood by itself, but on top of his idea and photos, he painstakingly created the final images using an alt process that accentuated the vision he had for the project.
With everybody using their "art filters" on their digital camera, or their Iphone apps to make the same images that photographers skated by with ten years ago, it's just another hurdle we face in the photography world and making our mark on it in the next few decades. That's my $0.02.
I enjoyed the full essay. especially the part where he quotes Baudrillard about hipstamatic being hyper-vintage. I don't see any differences between the hipstamatic craze and the original Kodak craze in 1888. It is making photography more accessible to the masses, especially with people never being without their phones. But neither one will really threaten professional photographers and the work they are producing. I think programs like the hipstamatic are a great tool to begin looking critically and learning composition (or as a simple guilty pleasure.) But the fact that it is reliant on a program to add textures to the image, and those textures are already in the hands of millions of people, images will soon be recognized more for the fact they were created from a program rather than what an image is conveying visually. I think this will keep these images separated from what people consider art photography, and categorize it more with senior pictures and wedding photography.
Yea I feel like 2010-2011 are the throwback years, with everything. Sports, Fashion, and Art included. Lets get on with it. I agree with Dan. and Collin, you are right, we need to LOOK at the past, not EXECUTE the past.
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Thanks for posting this. The full essay linked at the bottom of the article is very good as well. Personally, I hope this trend dies out fast; nostalgia, while being a strangely good feeling, hinders progress and creates stubbornness. It's easy to look to the past and consider it to be the "good old times", it's the same for every generation.
People did great things with film and outdated processes throughout history, but that doesn't mean they just took snapshots and stopped there, deciding that their choice of medium was the end of the creative process.
I could teach my mom to take a snapshot of her house using Portra 160 and just think it's the coolest thing ever because the colors are unique. Anyone can. It's our knowledge and expression as artists that set us arpart from the crowd.
Take some of Ian's work. Last year (forgive me but I forgot the name of the project) he showed us a very carefully thought out series that could have stood by itself, but on top of his idea and photos, he painstakingly created the final images using an alt process that accentuated the vision he had for the project.
With everybody using their "art filters" on their digital camera, or their Iphone apps to make the same images that photographers skated by with ten years ago, it's just another hurdle we face in the photography world and making our mark on it in the next few decades. That's my $0.02.
As artists we need to look to the past to move forward.
I enjoyed the full essay. especially the part where he quotes Baudrillard about hipstamatic being hyper-vintage. I don't see any differences between the hipstamatic craze and the original Kodak craze in 1888. It is making photography more accessible to the masses, especially with people never being without their phones. But neither one will really threaten professional photographers and the work they are producing. I think programs like the hipstamatic are a great tool to begin looking critically and learning composition (or as a simple guilty pleasure.) But the fact that it is reliant on a program to add textures to the image, and those textures are already in the hands of millions of people, images will soon be recognized more for the fact they were created from a program rather than what an image is conveying visually. I think this will keep these images separated from what people consider art photography, and categorize it more with senior pictures and wedding photography.
But then again, that's where the money is. . .
Yea I feel like 2010-2011 are the throwback years, with everything. Sports, Fashion, and Art included. Lets get on with it. I agree with Dan. and Collin, you are right, we need to LOOK at the past, not EXECUTE the past.
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