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The Photographic Craft in The Digital Era Speaker : Alex Edwards

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The Photographic

Craft in The Digital Era

Speaker : Alex Edwards

–Craig Mod

“We see cameras transitioning into

what they were bound to become:

networked lenses.”

–Susan Sontag

“While there appears to be nothing

that photography can’t devour,

whatever can’t be photographed becomes

less important.”

–Craig Mod

“Today, it turns out, it’s whatever

can’t be networked that

becomes less important.”

– Data curtsy of Mary Meeker, KCPB’s 2013 Internet Trends

500 million photographs shared

daily with complete strangers

–April Klicrease

“While more Photographs are being

taken, they’re also becoming more ephemeral.”

–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.'”

“The rise of the mp3 has been coupled

with a resurgence in vinyl…”

–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…”

–Ian Ruhter

“… Everyone around me has the same cameras, the same signature.”