Photography, the Dying and Evolving
Medium in a Digital Age.
Photography as a medium was a major change for how we
like to capture the world around us to this day, With its original purpose to
be documentation over time that part hasn’t changed but what has changed is how
we ultimately do photography and what we use it for where as now we use it for
birthdays or vacations or even a night out at the bar with friends to schooling
and work, where it used to be used to document specific photography surrounds
out everyday lives even when it comes to social media but photography like a
lot of modern day art mediums is changing and evolving to something much more.
How we do photography has evolved from exposures that take hours to exposure
that take milliseconds and from photos you had to wait to develop to see to
photos that you can see immediately after capturing that moment for immediate
remembrance. Photography and how it’s evolved has changed how we socialize with
each other with the coming of Snap Chat and Instagram to new psychological
disorders (PsychologyToday) following the “selfie” which is taking photos of
your self and posting them to social media for the world to see. We as people
are evolving with photography. Schools today are teaching obsolete programs on
photography to such a point that half of what you learn in school about
photography outside of college you probably wont use again with an example
being film developing. With the coming of the digital age the job market today
doesn’t even require knowledge of black and white photography and developing.
Egg Harbor Township that handles most of Spencer’s advertising requires that
their photographers have a Bachelors in Science with a Concentration of
Photography/Advertising or Similar with a strong knowledge of photo editing (sr.
photographer) and manipulation. This tells me
that the photography we are learning today in college is obsolete. While yes in
college most photography degrees require digital photography courses but it is
one course of many courses that you are required to take in order to receive a
degree in photography and one of the main pre requisite courses is in fact
Black and White Photography with Dark Room that no job now days requires. The
process of Black and White Developing lasted for about 161 years with the first
Digital Camera being invented in 1988 and the first photograph known being made
in 1827. (Wikipedia) With the coming if the Internet and the digital age It
allowed most people to just learn photography online through social
applications like YouTube or EBooks online where you can also learn photography
and photo shop and have access to extensive tutorials on anything you could
possibly imagine. Photography will continue to evolve and already has begun to
with the influences of 3D imaging and with the new increase of 4k photographic
systems not to mention to sociological changes to come.
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"Are Selfies a Sign of Narcissism and
Psychopathy?" Psychology Today. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2015.
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