iPhone photos & Photo Apps Cheating?

by Aaron Schwartz

Is iPhone photography & post-processing with apps cheating?

It’s odd to me how some people think making images with an iPhone is somehow cheating, too easy or not real photography.

All photographs are manipulated.

A camera is a camera, a machine that fixes the effects of light on a medium. A post-processing app is a darkroom.

Just not so smelly.

So while I have some admiration for purists, curmudgeons and luddites for their staunch stubbornness and pinhole vision, I will embrace any invention that makes life more fun and allows me to do what I want to do and doesn’t spoil the planet.

Maybe iPhones + apps put creative possibilities in too many grubby hands;

Maybe camera gadgetry and darkroom alchemy sent us down a sinful and impure path from the beginning; and maybe any art that isn’t scratched into a cave wall with a rock is too damned easy.

But I don’t think so.

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