What is PHONOGRAPHY?

Does it seem to you that everyone is a photographer these days?  Technology has gotten us to the point where any time we are visually inspired, we take out our cell phones and snap a picture. Many of us have become instant artists, documenting our everyday lives.   Apps  offer endless possibilities to add color, filters and effects to these snapshots.   It's like having a photography studio in the palm of your hand!  The next step for most people is to download their photos, and share them online.  While the ease of sharing photos this way is great for our busy, scattered lives it is also lacking something.  When photos are viewed exclusively online, the physical experience is lost.  This way of viewing images is relatively new, yet it seems to be completely entrenched.  When's the last time you asked to see someones photos and were handed a stack of prints?  It is assumed that when we view someones photos, it will be on a screen. 

We have come such a long way since the first photograph was taken 180 years ago!  Advances in photo technology have always happened rather quickly.  Joseph Niepce took the worlds first photograph in 1826, and by the mid 1800s, photography had become a product for mass consumption.  Development of color photography,  smaller cameras, filters, Kodachrome, instant camera, flash, stereoscopics, Polaroid, all changed how we photograph.  The one constant throughout all these changes, however,  was the final result-a photograph that was tangible.  Something you could hold in your hand.  The advances made in digital technology  in the more recent past have taken this tactile experience out of our hands and onto the computer screen. 

PHONOGRAPHY wants to change that.  We want you to enjoy your photos in a new/old way. We want you to print out your cell phone photos, and enjoy photography as it was done in the past when photos were captured on film, processed, developed, enlarged, framed, and hung on walls.  We LOVE what the amazing new cell phone cameras allow in photo imaging and we want to show off the results in a GALLERY SHOW AT THE TECH GARDEN IN DOWNTOWN SYRACUSE.  Take your photos out of the computer and onto the gallery walls!  More info coming soon!