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How that notion even persists is silly. I'm a retired art director who had photographers on my staff who had to transition from film to digital equipment and electronic/Photoshop editing means.
That was an easier transition for them than for Kodak...a sad story of corporate/upper management who, while paid to keep up with and stay ahead of industry trends/developments, totally missed the boat on digital.
But anyway, I always urged my photographers to shoot work other than their newspaper assignments which I would run as a feature page of their work.
As for myself, while working as an art director I had a separate career as a painter with a co-op callery in NYC and regularly had one-person shows of my work so you might guess where I'm going with this. In art school I was schooled in drawing, printmaking, sculpture, oil, acrylic, water color (water color before that in high school by an art teacher who saw promise in my work and encouraged me and two other students to work apart from her class), so I'm old school and consider hand-wrought work the "real thing".
One-off, actual work with art materials from whether it be oil or acrylic on canvas or board, water color with brushes and good paper that is generated by human hand and isn't subject to making a change with a computer program and printed out and considered a different work because of the change.
Again, original, hand-wrought, one-off, can't be duplicated work to me is the "real thing."
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