Contemporary Issues in Photography

• October 10, 2016
• Eli Craven
• Artist and Adjunct Faculty in Photography
• www.elicraven.com
• So many people take photos everyday
• Is photography over?
• Can anyone be a photographer?
• A photographer takes their profession seriously
• A person taking a nice photo is a brisk action
• Photography is a tool used in many different ways
  • Social media
  • Documentary
  • Numerous ways in which photography transfers information
• 'So, is photography over?' The question derives from a Symposium held in art museum in 2010
• Art photography gives light to all the other forms of photography
• SO many different types of photography
• Painting is painting, It’s all art.
• You could pull them apart
• Fear revolving around photography ever since conception
• Photography is far from over and will be continually be something to be afraid of

• What it is now is not what it used to be.