I wrote a huge stupidity a few weeks ago: artificial intelligence will be the deadly virus of Photography and that we, The Eye of Photography, would never talk about it.
AI is indeed the deadly virus of photography but we must talk about it, especially as it represents a new approach and a drastic change in our world.
If AI allows immeasurable progress in various fields, in photography on the other hand it will initially be deadly.
First it is the acceleration of the transformation of the world of still images and the second disappearance of our favorite preacher and his bible:
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes.
The mantra of our youth: “Photography is the memory of the world”, has just died in the trash of Fake News and manipulation.
Today, the image replaces the verb and on social networks the photo has become communication.
The first victims were magazines, the celebrity press and photojournalism.
Tomorrow it will be fashion and advertising photography which will be corrupted by AI and already every day proposals with the terrifying title arrive: Create your own ad or catalog with…
Entire sections of photography and their photographers will disappear.
Only one photographic field seems to be able to resist or even coexist, art photography.
In Brussels a month ago, in Paris this last weekend, exhibitions and conferences were held on this fragile communion of life.
It is this possible cohabitation that we will talk about, this appropriation by a few photographers to push their creativity further.
It will only be a niche but at least it will be!
Some results are surprising.
We did a first retrospective. Today’s edition was produced by Jean-Baptiste Gauvin.
We are going to open a monthly section first and more if affinities..
Jean-Jacques Naudet
