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"Photography, he added, has long played second fiddle to other art-forms, but the balance is now, at last, being redressed."

Hmmm. It would seem that Peter Bacon Hales has an alternative point of view. Wish I could hear them discuss...

The End of Photography: Meditations on the Birth, Death and Meaning of a Medium

Lecturer: Peter Bacon Hales.

Photography as an artistic medium has eroded dramatically in recent decades. The integration of photographic materials by painters has blurred traditional lines. Simultaneously, digital photography, with its capacities for manipulation, modulation, and transformation, has converted photographs into objects taken to be objects made over.

What this means for photography’s future is a subject of intense speculation, even as photographers—or those using photography—redefine the terms of the debate. Using contemporary photographs by artists Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, and others, and historical photographs dating back to the medium’s birth in 1826, Hales will explore the implications of crisis and promise in contemporary photography.

http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=41