In Response to The Art of Instant Gratification

This article is probably far too brief to do what it really wants to do. Still the general argument it seems to be trying to address has been discussed to the point that most readers will probably read a lot between the lines. Personally I feel very drawn to physical art as opposed to information based art. For this reason I still have not converted to digital photography.

As far as photographs being used as mementos there is one key argument I can make for 35mm. Digital is so easy that people tend to place less importance on the images they make using these means. They take hundreds if not thousands of photos and put close close to no effort into doing so. Like anything else abundance and availability greatly decreases value. I know it is all psychological but it is definitely still true. In the early days of photography people would cling to a single photo of someone and the relationship between that photo and the person was therefore much more personal.