How hot is photography?

For those of you who are slow on the uptake, large scale color prints are all the rage. And some people are none too pleased about it:

"You want to know how hot photography is? Photography's so hot that people who call themselves photographers, who have minimum skills and crappy equipment and nothing in common [with real photographers], can get shows in Chelsea in one gallery after another."

Despite that grumpy quote, the article is actually a good overview of current trends, even if it does have a forced sense of amazement at all these new fangled changes like digital prints and the obligatory disparagement of New York.

UPDATE: More detailed thoughts on this article can be read over atPanchromatica