As one unintended, unexpected consequence of attending the tech expos, I’ve achieved a definite level of geekiness — which makes me, given my chronological age, a geezer geek. I don’t feel especially geezerish, nor for that matter particularly geeky. But I can converse with segments of the tech crowd and understand much of what they say; and I find myself explaining technical issues to people less versed in these matters than I, who seem to find those distillations useful. Who’d have thunk it? […]
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Photography itself was of course a fad, until it wasn’t. Same goes for stereo sound, blue jeans and T-shirts as casual wear, and rock & roll. One function of cultural journalism (and I have that hat, among others, in my wardrobe) involves looking at fads in order to gauge the likelihood of their turning into trends, and from trends evolving into relatively permanent aspects of the cultural landscape. […] |
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Crises in the Photo Industry (1)
The tribulations of Kodak and Olympus impinge less directly and severely on the field of creative photography, where I concentrate my attention as a critic and journalist. Yet they too seem to signify the end of an era in which major-league companies identified so strongly with photography constituted an industry from which no one anticipated anything but ongoing strength and steady growth. […]