cyanatic Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 <p>Some interesting observations on the <em>zeitgeist </em>of stock photography.</p><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/inside-the-hive-mind-of-stock-photography/284060/">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/inside-the-hive-mind-of-stock-photography/284060/</a></p><p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplumpton Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 <p>The contemporary zeitgeist (maybe I should just say spirit of the times) in photography is similar to the sound bite in broadcast news and has about the same degree of profoundness. Information, visual or auditive, is in the hands of the communication specialist or advertiser (commercial, political) and covers all media, and, with greatly increasing presence, social media. What does all this mean? Spurious distractions or adding meaning to life?</p> <p>It's kind of tough to avoid being bombarded by all this visual and auditory information, most of it noise, and do what we really want to do, immersed in what is our private world, or one limited to hopefully significant interactions with others.</p> <p>On opening my server's web page I used to get a neat and simple list of contents. They are still there but I have to put up with a lot of unsollicited visual bites. Nostalgia, visual sensations, anything that works in photography to distract and to create a need for the seller of something.</p> <p>Are the visual bites the future of photography? Selfies at least are more personal.</p> <p>Marcel Proust would be pleased, or maybe depressed, to see humanity is still in a search for lost times.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Stock photography is on life-support. It's too easy to take and distribute photos of high quality these days. I predict a surge in free stock photos in the future. More photographers will prefer the Creative Commons Attribution license than any commercial stock license. I'm slowly building a portfolio for the purpose of putting the images under CCA on Flickr. Granted, I'm not exactly using Phase One backs to do it. But it will be fun. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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