A 10 Minute symposium presentation talking about the Craft within photography, how it hasn't been lost, only forgotten as we transitioned into the digital landscape within Photography.
6. “While more Photographs are being taken,
they’re also becoming more
ephemeral .”
–April Klicrease
7. “When
craft is involved with the making of
something, be it a pot or a piece of writing, it
usually means that the
process
of how and
why it has been put together has been well
considered .”
–Laurie Britton-Newell
8. “Regardless of process or variance in
tools,
craft is defined by intention and
attention , by caring about the outcome
and in relation, caring about the end-
user . This is why craft matters, why the
notion of digital
craft has emerged.”
–Guy Horton
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12. “Art has ‘intrinsic ’ value, meaning that art is
valuable in itself, and independent of
what people
enjoy , or want, or what is good
for them.”
–Stephen Guest
13. “Craft has never been
more important
than now, as an antidote to mass
production
and as a practice in which the very time is takes to
produce an object becomes part of its value
in a world that often moves
–Caroline Roux
too fast.'”
14. “The rise of the mp3 has been coupled with a
resurgence
in vinyl …”
15. “…Nothing has contributed more to our
collective appreciation for being logged
off and technologically disconnected than the
very technologies of connection .”
–Nathan Jurgenson
16. “When I started in Photography I was using my
hands to create photography, and it seemed
overnight Digital came and all of that was
gone…”
17. “… Everyone around me has the same
cameras, the same signature.”
–Ian Ruhter
