Photography is Dead

A Rant

In a few years, the only photography left will be the kind done by hobbyists, done to be quaintly archaic; a niche of hipsters and oldsters enamored of the funky process.

For everyone else, it’s melodramatic to say it, but photography really is dead. It was necessary and important for more than a hundred and fifty years, but those utilitarian days are done. Its value and meaning to the public is irreparably changed.

First, there are increasingly better ways to report efficiently — video, 3D; second, there is such a glut of imagery…