In the brief history of photography, 175 years or so, a lot of it has been going out someplace and bringing back your image as a trophy, as a spoil or as a treasure and I think those days are ending pretty quickly.
The photographer Paul Shambroom to Wired’s Rawfile. In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them.
In a lengthy Q&A with Wired, Paul Shambroom suggests that photography is rapidly evolving — morphing might be a better word — into a field that includes working with and collecting the world’s digital output as seen on Flickr, Picassa, Facebook and other photo sharing platforms, as well as new(ish) tools that let us mix, match and mashup that output such as Microsoft’s Photosynth.
He also goes futuristic and thinks that some day we’ll be able to take a picture anywhere in the world without actually being there.
(via futurejournalismproject)
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
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