Digital Encroachment
For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there.
"The dominant tech culture says everyone should just give away their content and their expertise," Lanier told me this week. "Then they are supposed to make money later through personal appearances, or selling T-shirts or whatever. That doesn't really help the photographer or the graphic artist who is trying to make a living right now."
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It's a pretty interesting article, and I'd encourage everyone to read it. Particularly for visual artists, while everyone has been focusing on the seemingly endless possibilities of technology, but there are significant negative trade-offs being made with the encroachment of digital reproduction and dissemination.
It's a pretty interesting article, and I'd encourage everyone to read it. Particularly for visual artists, while everyone has been focusing on the seemingly endless possibilities of technology, but there are significant negative trade-offs being made with the encroachment of digital reproduction and dissemination.
From a post called Black & White ImageS: the Fifth Special Collection at lines and colors:
"As I've pointed out before, even though it's not evident at first glance, computer monitors are low resolution (about 103ppi) -- print images in glossy magazines and books are almost three times higher in resolution than your monitor (300dpi); and the difference in reproducing this kind of image is striking."
He's talking about pen and ink drawings in particular, which don't reproduce all that well on a computer screen. But it also applies to printmaking, particularly if you create etchings. I'd think that it would be pretty galling to most visual artists to labor over a piece of artwork, and then having the vast majority of people who actually see the work see it in a diminished manner.
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