the photographic craft in the digital era - a photographic symposium
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–Susan Sontag
“While there appears to be nothing
that photography can’t devour,
whatever can’t be photographed becomes
less important.”
– Data curtsy of Mary Meeker, KCPB’s 2013 Internet Trends
500 million photographs shared
daily with complete strangers
–Laurie Britton-Newell
“When craft is involved with the making
of something, be it a pot or a piece of
writing, it usually means that the process of how and why it has been
put together has been well considered.”
–Guy Horton
“Regardless of process or variance in tools, craft is defined by intention
and attention, by caring about the
outcome and in relation, caring about
the end-user. This is why craft
matters, why the notion of digital craft has emerged.”
–Stephen Guest
“Art has ‘intrinsic’ value, meaning that
art is valuable in itself, and
independent of what people enjoy,
or want, or what is good for them.”
–Caroline Roux
“Craft has never been more important than now, as an antidote to
mass production and as a practice in which
the very time is takes to produce an object becomes part of its value in a world that
often moves too fast.'”
–Nathan Jurgenson
“…Nothing has contributed more to
our collective appreciation for being
logged off and technologically disconnected than the very
technologies of connection.”
“When I started in Photography I was using my hands to create photography,
and it seemed overnight Digital came and all of that was gone…”