Because photographs are worth saving. They are a form of visual history that shows who we were at that time. Visual imagery was once saved by developing film then it was saved by uploading it to the cloud now it is saved by tokenizing on the blockchain.
The Truth of Photographs Minted Between 2021-2024
We are lucky that Line Artists specialising in photography managed to tokenize a ton of photographs before AI could generate unlimited visual images. That means we know that the photographs are real because the photographs were pre-AI AND were saved to the blockchain.
Tokenizing Photos: Why?
Are these photos worth tokenizing? That is a question for the artist and for the curators. What The Line has done is surfaced these visual images for you to enjoy and potentially collect.
Lens Based Line Artists
Where to start? Filter by Lens Based Artists and you'll find hundreds of artists who have a backpack full of lens, and a keyboard connected to the blockchain.
Tyler's Journey (Line 15) will bring you to the rooftops in the dead of night. Wimvancappellen (Line 50) will take you back to black and white records of early car accidents. Little Art (Line 43) will take you into the fractions of a second that define high speed liquid art. Eric Pare (Line 156) flashes forward with portraits surrounded by light. Kristopher Shinn (Line 141) will take you across the water and make that trip feel deeper than you ever remembered. Chris Hytha (Line 787) records those Philadelphia Row Homes in 100 artworks, before they are swallowed by progress or decay. Claudiu Guraliuc (Line 190) brings the Renaissance in front of his stylised scenes depicted in drama. Gabriella Morton (Line 133) speaks in symbols through quietly lit locations you visit in your dreams.
There are sooo many. 431 Lens Based artists to be exact. Go. Look. Enjoy.
...and maybe collect.
