Robert Cornelius' self-portrait. The back reads, "The first light picture ever taken." (Wiki)
“Today’s images have a very different visual aesthetic,” I recently wrote a friend, who is a documentary photographer (to remain anonymous.) “Many of your images look ‘dated,’ which is fine, especially as they are becoming ‘historic,’ so they will increase in value in that sense.” However, I advised him that unless he at least “reinvigorated” his images with careful postproduction treatment, he would lose stock sales.
His response: “Other people have told me that my pictures look dated, though I don’t understand how you and them can see that. I know they’re old, but I can’t tell the difference.”
Writing back about his images being dated, I said: “This is incredibly obvious in Continue reading “How Quickly They Age”