Postfotografia

At the latest since the commercial use of digital photography, the question upon "the death of photography", namely of the "art of photography" came up. How can you value a well-selected View, a well-balanced illumination if everything is possible in postproduction? If you can´t even source the original look of a photo?

Well, art has never been a contest about the best technical skills - but if someone has to tell you something interesting or not. In fact, noone will care about a photo that is being converted a hundred of times if the artist is not able to tell us something by what he/she´s doing. It would be interesting, how many photos are circling around in the virtual space of the internet, uploaded by anyone. Barely in between this mass of photos: converted photos, snapshots, simple montages you can easily notice an idea that is really original and artistically motivated. I think that we´re all so overwhelmed with any kind of information that the hard work we have to do is the SELECTION between a thousand possibilities. ( And at this term i agree with the postmodern theories).

Post-fotographers wouldn´t be contempory artists if they suddenly refused to discuss questions of our information-technology-digital-based society by communication-tools we´re using in this society: And we´re using masses of data, we´re communicating via three messengers the same time, we´re overwhelmed by sounds....... you have to answer this phenomenon with instruments that can mirror it.

So, I don´t think the qualitative photography is dead, just because we have a lot more of technical possibilities - I think that photography that seems unstable, random, maybe even unfinished is just the appropiate kind of art for the time we´re living in.