The title isn't mutually exclusive at all. I'd wager the vast majority of artistic movements are fads, let alone statements. That doesn't mean it says anything deep about reality
Ask anybody why they are doing it any you won't get an answer any deeper than "I like the way it looks", "It's nostalgic", "I saw other people doing it", or even "It's trendy" and it doesn't take much digging to see that.
Digicams are a fad and a shallow artistic statement. That's not to say you can't make great art with a digicam nor that switching to one won't make you a more mindful artist. Switching from a modern graphical shell to a bourne-like shell will make a non-programming computer user (if there is such a thing) a more careful programmer, but in doing so you are cutting out an entire space of tasks that you could be doing.
Ask anybody why they are doing it any you won't get an answer any deeper than "I like the way it looks", "It's nostalgic", "I saw other people doing it", or even "It's trendy" and it doesn't take much digging to see that.
Digicams are a fad and a shallow artistic statement. That's not to say you can't make great art with a digicam nor that switching to one won't make you a more mindful artist. Switching from a modern graphical shell to a bourne-like shell will make a non-programming computer user (if there is such a thing) a more careful programmer, but in doing so you are cutting out an entire space of tasks that you could be doing.