Photography is "over"

[cbella]

This has raised an interesting question for me. How many members of Photrio still develop and darkroom print photographs. I'd probably rather not know as it might be a frighteningly low number.

pentaxuser

I still prefer darkroom silver gelatin and alternative process prints.

 

[pentaxuser]

I still prefer darkroom silver gelatin and alternative process prints.

Well we now have about 5-6 declarations of darkroom printing . Clearly there is no way we can realistically ascertain how many darkroom printers there are on Photrio but my strong feeling is that while our membership has grown and we may, I won't put it stronger than that, have an increased interest in film, I still doubt if our darkroom printing population has grown at all. As printers get older and eventually "disappear" I strongly suspect there are not being replaced on a 1 for 1 basis

pentaxuser

 

[Sirius Glass]

I am not getting older. I will not disappear! And I will not grow up!

 

[Kino]

Photography is not over but evidently Wenders has given up.

Wenders gave up on everything years ago and that is his major calling card.

I think being trapped in the jungle with Klaus Kinski during the making of "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) drove him mad and he's been philosophically suicidal ever since...

 

[removed account4]

interesting thread
lots of posturing and proclaiming
all i have to say is "so what"
maybe the photography HE liked is dead
seeing my connection to it was/has not been
the same as his ... FOR ME at least , photography is not dead.
the way he describes photography and declaring it being dead
is like a jilted lover / boyfriend girlfriend who takes the box of
happy photographic memories and cuts the other person out of the pictures
" so and so is totally dead to me" ... sure, but life goes on, and maybe the person really isn't dead
and even when he or she IS actually dead ... does it really matter at that point
seeing the jilted lover / boyfriend girlfriend doesn't care anymore except to
badmouth who or what that person had become after they were with him/her
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seems to me that photography is like a tree that has to be pruned >>deadwood removed and healthy branches remain.
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i develop film when i can and make prints when the sun is out. i make fewer darkroom prints than prints using the sun

 

[Dali]

This has raised an interesting question for me. How many members of Photrio still develop and darkroom print photographs. I'd probably rather not know as it might be a frighteningly low number.

pentaxuser

I still develop my films and turn my enlarger on every weekend.