The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.