>>2924519>no composition, no form or story, no thought into setup of the camera>understand exposure, shoot with filters, learn film and developing in a darkroom, etcNone of these things are integral to photography as an art form (nor were they ever). Preoccupation with craft is eminently the domain of hotel lobby art- as much in photography as painting or sculpture.
Proliferation of photography has, if anything, elevated the relevance of the medium in critical discourse- what it means to look, to record, and to reproduce an image at a time when the taking of a photo is totally democratized.