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>>289349 Another really good resource: The History of Photography Podcast. http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/
Puts a lot of the faggotry here in perspective when you can look back at how far we've come. "HDR is a really annoying fad" gets amusing when you realize that early glass-plate photographers were using basically the same techniques as HDR to overcome the limitations of their medium.
>>289351 >Why does it seem like ALL photography back in the day was instant art. A couple reasons. First and foremost, you don't *see* "ALL" photography from back in the day. You see the 10% or so that was good enough that people still keep it around today.
Second, there was a much, much higher bar for photography back then, so a lot fewer people who sucked at it were willing to put in the effort to keep going.
Finally, there's the originality aspect. If you're looking at, say, HCB's stuff and thinking to yourself "This is all just boring, cliche street photography", you should keep in mind that when he shot it, it *wasn't* cliche, it's just that so many people have copied him over the years that it might seem that way.
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