Reply To: "Grunge" photos: Faux or legitimate art?

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I think it depends who’s doing it. I’m quite interested in this subject and remember reading an article about people going in for this low fi/grungey look as a bit of a backlash from the near ‘perfect’ (yeah right!) images that digital produces.

I think film is a lot more hands on and it’s that that still has an appeal to people and it’s that aesthetic that they are trying to emulate or recapture.

It’s interesting though as this has been happening almost since the start of photog, with togs like Edward Steichen using ‘grungey’ techniques and blur etc.  in order to produce a more ‘legitimate’ art form as they believed photography, as it was, was too mechanical and needed to be more ‘hand crafted’ for it to be an acceptable art form.

Sorry to go on, but I’m just really interested in this 🙂