Friday, October 07, 2005

Digital Cameras

I've been thinking for a while about this invention we call the "digital camera". I believe it is perhaps the greatest contribution to art that technology has ever made. I know, you're all saying, 'but the camera has been around for more than a hundred...". The digital camera requires no development, no chemicals, and most of them don't require any knowledge of photographic process or theory to use. Now everyone, that can afford one (they are getting cheaper), can show to someone exactly what their eye sees, without having to explain. The invention gives us the ability to truly examine the question of beauty without having to question the intention of the artist. Aristotle would be happy as a pig in ...

1 comment:

detroit joel said...

i find it sad... it is destroying memory... and the art of explanation. i find it a deterent
to communication rather than a help.
i was born at the wrong end of the century i guess.
where is the mystery of life?