Re: digital and analogue photography -the essay

[Catherine Rogers <chrogers@bigpond.com>]

Colleen,
Although the essay was written over 2007 (I am tempted to add to it 
after the many thoughtful responses from this list), I was partly moved 
to put the essay out now because of an article I read in 
Photo-techniques magazine, May/June 2008, 'The shift to digital in 
photographic education', by William Schneider (whom I don't know). He 
takes a very practical approach to the nuts a bolts of the realities of 
the shift in American Universities. I have drawn heavily on the 
philosophy of technology. I thought that, as a photographer, it would be 
interesting to see how this could be applied to an actual, happening 
situation and to something I knew about.

Uses of words and language in the new field of digital image-making 
could be a whole essay in itself I think.

I hope your masters proposal is accepted.
Best
Catherine

DimitriColleen Deneux wrote:
> I've been a lurker for the past few months but I've just submitted a 
> masters proposal very close to this thread of analogue and digital 
> pros and cons.  I appreciated very much your paper Catherine and 
> reading all the posts following.
>
> I can't remember where I read this exactly (in some photo magazine 
> somewhere) but it seemed right on the money.  With the arrival of 
> digital we should perhaps create a new category of ' image-maker' 
> apart from that of 'photographer'.
>
> Colleen Leonard