The Digital Divide

One of the ideas in the article I resonated with was Claire's point that "today, film's soft warmth feels intimate compared with the cold, hard digital image" -- I hadn't explored film photography until I took Jonathan's darkroom class last year, and for me, it was almost like re-discovering photography. It felt familiar, yet very different than anything I had done before. Almost nostalgic, yet that was the first time I was experiencing it. For me, the fascination with the analog is very real -- and even my 'digital' work has become inspired by it in various ways. I can see how Claire's point that truly, pure digital art (at least at the time of writing her article) was very hard to come by as lots of artists' work is rooted in some 'physical' form, whether that be the form it's displayed in or the methods the artist used to create their work.

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