Darkroom photography on the decline, hand vs. machine

[sawdoffstikpins]

Do you think there is value in teaching darkroom photography in college art classes even tho everything is so digital now?

If we're going to get rid of one traditional technique, why are we still going to teach other traditional techniques like painting, glass blowing, hand built ceramics, metal smithing, printmaking...when everything can be done

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[fergusop]

I think we have an incomplete analogy to this in physics. For years, all a budding physicist learns is classical mechanics. By the time you get to "modern physics," you're learning late 19th century physics. But each successive advance in the field is rooted in the previous. Understanding Einstein without understanding Newton first is possible (after all, Newton was wrong)--but probably not easy or intuitive. I can imagine something similar being true in art and design, although I couldn't begin to explain how or why.

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