In the end, does it really matter whether or not it is digital or analog? Obviously, to see it on line, it is a digital representation of a print/negative. Does it really matter if it is a digital image of something that was captured on a 4x5 sheet of film, that was developed in chemicals, dried and then either exposed on paper using the various techniques available or scanned into a computer and brought to life that way? I do not believe so. Imaging the artists in the 1700's when people first started to monkey around with cameras, first by projecting onto a wall or something and tracing out the image, then by exposing a chemically treated piece of glass or other medium and suddenly having a realistic looking image appear with practically little skill (aside from being a chemist at the time) One who could not paint or draw suddenly could create images, imagine the horror to the Rembrandts and Picassos at the time and for quite sometime afterwards. I can imagine this same discussion taking place then as now only the terminology and reference points would be different.
When we look at a book of a photographers images or of an artists, they are all "not true" to the original if you will, they were copies and sometimes copies of copies, like cloning. When we print a picture from film, cool, when we scan it in and present it cool, when we print what we scanned cool, even if manipulated, which allows the artist/photographer to better realize his/her minds vision. What do we say about an image we scan in, correct/manipulate then create a digital negative, then create a print from that negative? Is it fake? No, it is a fact of the times.
I love film and everything about it, but that doesn't mean I have to be beholden to it as the final solution.
In the end, it doesn't really matter if we label the images here or not, but most seem to tell how the image was created and it is obvious it was photographed/scanned in at some point. So long as your monitor is calibrated you should see what the person intended to you to see.
Well, I wish film/paper had undue button, that would be cool.
And at least it isn't Pentacostal religion, would make for some pretty interesting photo sessions and developing/printing sessions.
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