35mm is the New Alternative Process
ARTnews' wide ranging article on the state of art photography opens with a description of the death of chemical-based photography. With the loss of commercial sources of materials for making analog camera-based photographs, silver halide will soon become an alternative process alongside other obsolete processes like the daguerreotype.
I saw the show at the Ransom Center today. It really was pretty small, but impressive nonetheless. It's not often that you get an opportunity to see all of those different processes side by side. And contemporary interpretations right next to originals, no less.