Quote Originally Posted by Drew Wiley View Post
Yes Kirk, I despise Warhol. In fact, I regard the whole Pop Art era as the dark ages of American art. And yes Jim, Fauxtography is meant as a term of contempt, but in relation to perception, not technique. I despise it when it becomes a substitute for really perceiving the world. As part of simple process getting from point A to point B, capture to print, it's just another valid tool parallel to film and darkroom, or perhaps
supplementary in some kind of hybrid workflow. Tools are one thing, the philosophy
behind them another. And it's getting to be a pretty precarious slope at the moment.
Photoshop is getting to be LSD in a picture frame.
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