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There was an interesting article last week in the Guardian titled 'The camera today? You can't trust it. Hockney sparks a debate'. As the title suggests it examines artist David Hockney's opinion that with the increase in digital manipulation in photography that we're seeing the death of an art form. Here is an extract:
'David Hockney, the celebrated pop artist who has worked extensively in photography, has fallen out of love with the medium because of its digital manipulation and now believes it is a dying art form.
In an interview with the Guardian, Hockney says he believes modern photography is now so extensively and easily altered that it can no longer be seen to be true or factual. He also describes art photography as "dull".'