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Benefits of selling NFT photos for photographers

Why NFT Photos are Beneficial to Photographers

An NFT photo entails owning an original, authentic file. In contrast, a digital photo may fall into the wrong hands, or be altered. NFT photos are valuable investments, but there …

Black-white documentary photograph of clam seller in Mulberry Bend, New York City circa 1900-1906, Detroit Publishing Company glass negative

Historical Study of Documentary Photography Development

When we speak of documentary photography, in addition to referring to an enormous body of lens-based representations, we mean a system of concepts, practices, institutions, technologies, and modes of receptivity. …

Sentient Photography: Image-Production and the Smartphone Camera

Sentient Photography: Producing Images with Smartphone Camera Applications

Thanks to the smartphone, photography has become pervasive in contemporary digital culture. Yet the smartphone’s very ‘smartness’ profoundly alters the relations of control between humans and technologies in image-production practices. …

Digital Photography: Personal Communication, Identity and Memory

Digital Photography: Personal Communication, Identity and Memory

Taking photographs seems no longer primarily an act of memory intended to safeguard family’s pictorial heritage, but is increasingly becoming a tool for an individual’s identity formation and communication. Digital …