Why Contemporary Photographers Are Rejecting the Camera

Alina Cohen

Apr 24, 2026 10:41 PM

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-contemporary-photographers-rejecting-camera?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial-roundup&utm_term=Sunday-Editorial-05-03-26&utm_content=yes-affinity

In the article, the author attributes this direction to the public’s distrust of the general digital world, brought on initially by digital editing and exacerbated by the growing use of AI. The article features the following: Photograms in art history, Photograms today, Photographers embrace the democracy of the medium, Experiments with paper, and Experiments with chemicals.

László Moholy-Nagy
Photogram, 1941″Moholy-Nagy: Future Present” at Guggenheim Museum, New York

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