Nan Goldin - View from my window, Roosevelt Hospital, NYC 2000
“I don’t carry my camera so much these days: I don’t have the same relationship with it. I’ve never conside photography one of the higher art forms. Everyone takes photos; now even phones can. The whole issue of digital is so depressing to me; my process is gone. There were all kinds of unknown things that could come out in a photograph, things you didn’t know were there until you saw it; now it’s all so flat. But then I never really saw myself as a photographer. “ VIA.
I think that it is interesting she feels that way since the intimacy she chose to document and make her own is now such a prevalent theme amongst young contemporary photographers who are actually primarily using analogue. You can argue for and against the fact that this style of photography is just as flat as any image rendered digitally since the proliferation of the ‘authorless’ appearance brought about by the popularity of the automatic.
(via nickelcobalt)
