{"id":1555,"date":"2012-09-12T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:42:37","slug":"the-devaluing-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/the-devaluing-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devaluing of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so much &#8220;photography&#8221; happening, it&#8217;s easy to think that photographs will (have) become totally devalued, making it very difficult for a photographer to make a living. However, if you look at photography as simply a (visual) language, it&#8217;s not the medium but the &#8220;story&#8221; that&#8217;s important; and that &#8220;story&#8221; should be as unique as the photographer him\/herself, and as interesting as what the photographer has within him\/her to say.<\/p>\n<p>Has the overwhelming prevalence of speech and written language undercut the value of stories, speeches, history, or literature?<\/p>\n<br \/>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\"\n style=\"min-width: 540px ! important; background-color: rgb(195, 176, 145); border-collapse: collapse;\"\n border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"18\" cellspacing=\"0\"\n width=\"540\">\n  <tbody>\n    <tr>\n      <td\n style=\"color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\"\n class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/mgracemartin\" target=\"_blank\"\n style=\"color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/red_swing_76.jpg\"\n style=\"border: 0pt none ; margin: 0px; width: 114px; height: 76px; text-decoration: none;\"\n align=\"left\" height=\"76\" width=\"114\"><\/a><br>\nVisit Michael's <a\n href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/mgracemartin\"\n target=\"_blank\"\n style=\"color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\">Art Photography Portfolio<\/a> at SaatchiArt.com!\n      <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much &#8220;photography&#8221; happening, it&#8217;s easy to think that photographs will (have) become totally devalued, making it very difficult &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/the-devaluing-of-photography\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[148,149,65],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-devaluing","tag-oversupply","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}