Work is existential and philosophical
Nov 9, 2022 7:50:06 GMT
Post by mostakimvip10 on Nov 9, 2022 7:50:06 GMT
The disadvantages of digital technology are many and they all have to do with the other face of the conveniences that it offers us. The multitude of options ease of use and low to zero cost require a photographer equipped with greater knowledge and more cultivated thinking to be able to choose among so many possibilities offered to us by all kinds of machine and computer programs along with infinite information of the Internet. However I believe that a small advantage of my older age is that combined with a little more knowledge I can more easily than young people avoid the pitfalls and distortions that accompany this exciting new technology. In terms of file security I think there is no comparison with the past. Today I feel much safer than ever.
We once had a valuable negative to guard the destruction of which e-commerce photo editing obliterated all traces of our work. Water fire fungi and the like threatened it and we wasted hours and money trying to improve its preservation conditions. Today safe back ups allow us to sleep in peace. The everimproving storage media doesn't scare us because we've learned to easily switch from one to another and feel more secure for our precious files each time. The only thing I still haven't come to terms with is the cloud. Perhaps because it refers to the afterlife. My photos artistic commemorative teaching medical bureaucratic etc. are identically copied on hard drives placed in different parts of two residences and one of them is always with me inside the backpack I carry on my back.
The technology changes we will adjust the back ups as well. Security and survival in the time of prints seems funny to me. Prints are nothing but traces of a photograph which can be reproduced identically especially now in the digital age in perpetuity. If it concerns us as a sales argument we have no choice but to give a replacement guarantee. The safety of an old souvenir photo is ensured by digitizing it better than ever. If we are interested in it as an object and not in what it shows then we are talking about a fetish or a cult object and the problem shifts to completely different areas. The question of whether I consider it important to preserve any of my not technological. My work will be preserved after my death by whoever considers it valuable to him.
We once had a valuable negative to guard the destruction of which e-commerce photo editing obliterated all traces of our work. Water fire fungi and the like threatened it and we wasted hours and money trying to improve its preservation conditions. Today safe back ups allow us to sleep in peace. The everimproving storage media doesn't scare us because we've learned to easily switch from one to another and feel more secure for our precious files each time. The only thing I still haven't come to terms with is the cloud. Perhaps because it refers to the afterlife. My photos artistic commemorative teaching medical bureaucratic etc. are identically copied on hard drives placed in different parts of two residences and one of them is always with me inside the backpack I carry on my back.
The technology changes we will adjust the back ups as well. Security and survival in the time of prints seems funny to me. Prints are nothing but traces of a photograph which can be reproduced identically especially now in the digital age in perpetuity. If it concerns us as a sales argument we have no choice but to give a replacement guarantee. The safety of an old souvenir photo is ensured by digitizing it better than ever. If we are interested in it as an object and not in what it shows then we are talking about a fetish or a cult object and the problem shifts to completely different areas. The question of whether I consider it important to preserve any of my not technological. My work will be preserved after my death by whoever considers it valuable to him.