As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. I do not believe, or at least I do not wish to believe, in the absolute success of such a brutish conspiracy, in which, as in all others, one finds both fools and knaves; but I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contributed much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. It is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy, and that the confusion of their several functions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled.
― Charles Baudelaire, On Photography, from The Salon of 1859
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You heard it from traditional artists when the camera was invented
makyo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And photographers when Photoshop was invented
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
And birthed impressionism as a result. These are tools, artists will adapt.
yildolw@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented
GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 months ago
A physical gallery has limited wall space. A website does not. Ai art should just be tagged as such, so it can be filtered
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If youre implying that every gallery in the world is rushing to exhibit every submitted ai picture with no curation or quality filter, name 5.