RE: Where are all the pinholer's?

The Pinhole community is already fragmented and someone or another's list or
user group had nothing to do with it.
More & more people are giving up their darkrooms. Unless you lug around the
8x10 version of Polaroid you are sort of stuck with 4x5 at the largest.
(Yes, I know, you can scan those & make digital prints...different look &
feel)
Even though it's quite easy to do, Pinhole photography on digital cameras
doesn't quite have the same effect & disintegrates quite badly on
enlargement.

Now I run a small photo school in New Jersey & have seen the significant
slowdown in Traditional & alternative processes, especially this year so I
have paid close attention to the situation for a while now.

It's not just pinhole photography that's falling off but most of the
alternative processes as well. Since more & more schools are only offering
digital photography now, the next generation of photographers will only be
introduced to pinhole & other alternative photography forms if they actively
seek it out or accidentally run a cross it. The following generation, that
is just growing up, has been raised on a diet of “real” digital prints,
computer monitors & cell phone screens.

I’m curious if there is a “solution” or if we will see a precipitous decline
in our Art forms for 5 or 10 years until photographers or the Art market
decide they need some way of differentiating “professional” work from
regular work so collectors/investors can feel better about purchasing such
work and the pricing can follow suit.

regards
       Andy Schmitt

  Head of Photography, Peters Valley Craft Center
            2007 schedule on line at:
 http://www.petersvalley.org/2007%20Workshops/photography2007_wrkshpschd.htm

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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Where are all the pinholer's?

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> I think the continued existence of the pinhole-discussion list only
> serves to fragment whatever pinhole photography discussion may be
> taking place on the Internet,

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