Continuum of Creation Seventh and final in the series: The Post-Photographic Shift
AI-assisted photography is not the end of the medium. It is the newest form of its oldest question: how are we going to define what fine art photography is?
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Most photography media reports on the field: exhibition news, artist profiles, weekly roundups. the illūminātum does something different. Every article and feature takes a position. The photographs and articles are chosen for what they say and do. Both stand up to scrutiny.
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Content Over Craft Sixth in the series: The Post-Photographic Shift
The standard for assisted imaging asks how an image was made. The question that matters is whether it was worth making.
The Artist's Mind in the Machine Age Fifth in the series: The Post-Photographic Shift
The question of whether AI removes the artist from the work sounds new. It is not. And the answer the art world has already given is more definitive than the current debate suggests.
From Canvas to Code Fourth in the series: The Post-Photographic Shift
Photography spent the better part of a century fighting to be taken seriously as art. This article traces how photographers got through the door, and why they have been so quick to forget the way in.