Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/28

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Subject: [Leica] Re: digital transformation
From: SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)
Date: Thu Apr 28 13:49:00 2005

 
In a message dated 4/28/2005 3:20:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
montoid@earthlink.net writes:

>From  1725 till Digital, traditional
"photography"
has involved primarily a  physical/chemical process, so let's drop the word
"photography" and call  it  "IT or Digital Imagery" and those involved can be
Digital Imagers  or Imagists...



What is traditional photography; anything not digital?  (by the way,  that 
would be 1827 till digital.) That sure covers lots of ground.  Popular  
Photography and Imaging magazine seems to agree with you enough to have 
changed  their 
name. 
 
If you heark  back to the earliest use of a camera, it was not a  chemical 
thing at all, it was writing with light in the camera obscura  first 
described 
in 5 BC by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti.   When  photography came along 
lots 
of artists were afraid that painting would cease to  be a trade, and they 
would 
be unemployed.
 
As another old codger who shoots film and digital, I'll probably keep on  
calling myself a photographer.   "Imagist" seems pretentious, (kinda  like 
in the 
schools, they call typing "keyboarding.")
 
 
 

Regards,  
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
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