The Purity of Photography as an Art Medium
I've been playing photographer since the early 90s. First in high school where I learned the ins and outs of the dark room and had my first experience with an SLR camera and then again as an active duty soldier in the Army when I bought an SLR for documenting my travels and experiences. I continued taking pictures and re-acquainted myself with the darkroom while taking the obligatory art credit in college. It was about this time the first digital SLRs were making it to the consumer market and digital darkrooms quickly replaced the need for gallons upon gallons of chemicals, basins and red lights. It also ushered in the age of digital manipulation. Image added because this is a photography blog after all In the dark room manipulation of the photograph can happen: filters can be applied to result in a specific outcome, burning, dodging, letting the paper swim a little longer to over develop or removing it early to under develop. This, coupled with in-camera techniques, gave the film...