Photographs Are No Longer Things, They’re Experiences

Photographs Are No Longer Things, They’re Experiences

Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. Photography is less about document or evidence and more about community and experience … and that’s not a bad thing.

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/stephen-mayes-vii-photography/

Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. The swift pace at which we create images is only matched by the pace at which we discard them and yet, paradoxically, we’ve never been more engaged with images