there is, though, a significant difference between something be dead and being obsolete.
Nowhere did I read Robert Burley saying film is dead.
He did say it's heading towards obsolence - which is pretty hard to argue with.
Which precisely isn't to say that film will not be around. (the steam train is still around, as is the typewriter and the record player, as is the wet-plate collodion process and woodblock printing as a mainstream means of illustration. But they are all essentially obsolete - practiced and used by enthusiasts and artists)
And the initial poster is correct - it's a statement and a situation which appears depressing. One which, knowing what I do of Burely he probably feels likewise about. (and which, I think is reflected in the elegiac nature of those photographs)
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