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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
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.
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.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.