“In a sense, directorial photography has been steadily supplanting what Paul Graham calls analytical photography, which is what I do. And much directorial photography and digital compositing (directorial’s newest agency) is so seamlessly crafted in intent and message that it is often indistinguishable from the world of fashion and advertising. I don’t believe that technology alone will lead to an expansion of what photography is. Making five different versions of oneself in a tree house is nothing new. Pictorialists were creating directorial narratives 100 years ago and Muybridge was seamlessly printing rocks and skies into his albumen prints. Instead, of interest to me is how digital will change photographic formalism. What does the world look like photographed digitally? Does the transformation exist simply because one creates a composite, or is it something more integral to the way digital sees the world, perhaps as hyper-reality, a state where it is impossible to distinguish between reality and fantasy?”
Michael Lundgren (via Conscientious)
