Article thoughts

 This article made me think about many things, but one thing that stood out to me was the advent of camera-less "photography". Works such as Beshty's subject-less "photograms" seem to represent, to me, a desperate clinging to exclusively chemical processes in the digital era, to the point of valuing them above the camera itself, in addition to the new changes in what a photograph can be. Chemical photography would appear to be phasing out in favor of the digital methods, but several old and new artists are still retaining it, artistic conservatives in an increasingly liberal movements. New methods may be changing what a photograph essentially is, but new syntheses of old methods are doing so as well. In this era of photography, it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same.