Why Modern Photography Sucks, and Were So Obsessed With the Past

I ran into a quote that I absolutely feel deep down into my soul: the fetishization of realism kills art. This is the ideal that so many Japanese lens manufacturers have embraced. When this is combined with the fact that photographers are copying other visual media all the time and only making images to please algorithms, we truly begin to see why modern photography sucks so much. And more importantly, it shows us why we're so obsessed with the past and how creativity has been massacred.