Why should we give up the mobile photography

Smartphones with camera made a real revolution in photography. If 10 years ago for fast shooting in any situation it was necessary to acquire a digital "soap box", now professional photographer takes photo-reports from the Olympic Games on the iPhone - and the world's leading publications take these materials publication without question. Universal happiness and comfort, is not it? However, Keith Weaver, photographer and designer, is firmly convinced that mobile photography "kills" itself is an art photographer, Which is so appreciated since the appearance of the "camera obscura".

Keith Weaver first picked up a camera in his hands, when he was only 5. Then he watched as the grandfather in a dark room by the light of a special lamp displays captured images and "dry" cards on the rope. 25 years later, Keith made the first shot on the iPhone - and I realized that the world is changing, and new tools can make the art of photography fun and different from the previous. But the joy of such changes dissipated quickly.

Over the past 10 years, science and art of creating pictures changed dramatically. But did not change the original promise: to create images that have artistic value, the plot, bringing some sense to the viewer. This simple but ingenious idea of ​​the reports make sense in today's society "photographers" is practically lost. Look around you: all pictures of sushi, cocktails, new handbag, a new lip gloss, a price tag in the restaurant, cooked for breakfast goat cheese or bought on sale sneakers. Another separate genre - an endless string of "crossbow" and "bows", filled the social networks. Photographers of the twentieth century would have grabbed his head in horror, knowing that the camera with a resolution superior to most analog cameras of 1983, It is in 2013 in order to capture new socks schoolgirl cup of "Starbucks" on the table startups or noodles in a serving dish in blogger.

Instead, to show the world that something beautiful, worthy of attention that has value and uniqueness of the momentMaking each viewer a part of a larger whole (as happens when viewing pictures of nature, unique architectural buildings, iconic political or social events, pictures of peaceful life or the war) - instead of all We "at the center of a dull asexual culture, where all pictures of food and shoes"(As rightly noted by one columnist).

If you still keep pictures of breakfast-lunch-dinner and the color of his own trousers, skirts, shirts this morning - Remember: you are not any amateur photographer. You - the one because of whom we are all better to abandon the mobile photography. Maybe then we will return to the feeling that still does not leave us when watching old photos taken on film, "Zenith", "Kiev", "change" and "Nikon" our parents and grandparents / grandmothers.

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