oh rob you are tearing me up with these posts.
I dont know. I am completely bored with standard contrived studio shots and the like, so I suppose in part I agree.
But the photogram, the pinhole camera, the cyanotype, photo guavre(I cannot spell), the light painter! They are far from dead. For me. They are entering a stage of freedom from the masses.. being hoarded by creative minds to experiement with and create wonderful expressions and say such interesting things so far removed from journalistic photography..
check it;
I'm sure you know all this anyway. That is a shitty cyanotype I couldnt find the nice one I wanted with lovely massive silk hanging from warehouse.. a sea of blue and imagery!
Just to me... photography isn't exclusively scientific documentation. It has been in that category far too long. Moving out for so many years but why does it still linger? Just as painting isn't exclusively pigments and binders on canvas. And there is so much in photography that moves me still. Such much unexplored.