04/14/2021
What do YOU say?
Is straight photography dead?
“When humans look at art, we are, seemingly, always looking for new ways to see. We want to be enraptured by a disruption to our normal way of visually consuming. We want, simply put, to see something different. In this way, photography is (and always has been) a dance to produce something new from the relatively limited stuff of reality.”
https://fstoppers.com/opinion/straight-photography-dead-558026?fbclid=IwAR0X1y3X4ztxD7qV8bY-HmkXLDpB4fEPnocINU3-pBV1jsD381cVC98TBX8
For some time now, I've been hearing that straight photography is dead. Well, dying anyway. By "straight" photography, I am referring to the act of making an image that depicts a scene in sharp focus and with minimal manipulation. I say minimally, because historically, the "straight" photographers o...