As cameras get better and better at basic tasks, it becomes more and more difficult for professional photographers to distinguish themselves from a reasonably astute-- and cheap-- amateur. In the world of art, this incubated the developments of expressionism, cubism, and abstract art. If anyone (with a camera) could create a reasonably accurate image of a face, then what makes a work of art "valuable"? Something you can't do with a camera: expressionism.
June 6, 2009
On one of the new Sony digital cameras, you can choose a setting that will prevent the camera from taking a picture unless it detects a smile on the face of your subject.
We have reached the ultimate of the nanny corporation: telling you when to take a picture, when someone's face is worth of immortalization, when you will be suitably charmed by the results.
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