Your Beautiful Pictures Are Stupid: Against Trendy Digital Photography – The Awl

by Art Fag City on October 6, 2010 · 2 comments Fresh Links!

  • Your Beautiful Pictures Are Stupid: Against Trendy Digital Photography – The Awl – Online at web resolution, though, can you tell the difference between film effects and digital effects? Sometimes, yes, you can! That's because the actual analog film effects aren't as "interesting" as the quicky digital ones. They aren't as thrilling to the eye. They're not as cheaply emotionally evocative. They're just pictures.

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Kamilah Gill-Reed October 6, 2010 at 6:10 pm

Oh my god, yes. Photoshop-like tools on mobile devices have created this massive amount of needlessly edited snapshots. Drives me nuts looking at them.

Kamilah Gill-Reed October 6, 2010 at 2:10 pm

Oh my god, yes. Photoshop-like tools on mobile devices have created this massive amount of needlessly edited snapshots. Drives me nuts looking at them.

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