Digital photography has changed the world of photography dramatically. Photography has become cheaper and easier and therefore accessible to everyone. Some would see this as beneficial but others would say that it has diminished the art of photography. It detracts from the craft of creating photographs; in the way that an artist would create a painting or sculpture. It has become so universal that cameras have become a ubiquitous item rather than a treasured possession.
It used to be that you would take a set of photographs and have to wait for them to be processed and the feeling of getting them back and looking through them is something that will not be experienced by future generations. The novelty of having physical photographs to put in a box or an album to hand down through generations has been lost. “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it” this quote from Susan Sontag’s On Photography supports the idea of photographs being mementoes, she believes that the photograph acts like a slice of history that you are allowed to keep. I agree with this; I believe that without the physicality of the photograph we do not appreciate it as much because as an image on a computer screen it is less meaningful.
To conclude I believe that despite the recent technological advancements analogue photography remains the truest and most fulfilling form of photography.
-‘On Photography’ - S. Sontag
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