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The New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) have affected all sectors of our daily life, including the art world, transgressing its frontier, not only technical and material, but also thematic and conceptual. The objective of this research aims to reflect on this fact, as well as to carry out a study of the digital instruments that are today at the service of art, with a special focus on the Internet and social networks in art (drawing, printmaking, photography, video, digital illustration, painting, and virtual sculpture). For this, a detailed ethnographic and analytical methodology is used on the subject in question, by studying authors such as Alcalá and Jarque, Belting or Valente and Adler, among others. One of the most outstanding conclusions reverts to the ability of current art to become more social and collective thanks to the new revolutionary paradigms of digital technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main role of photography as an artistic medium in the art world. The relevance of art fairs. The role of the fine art photographer in the art world and his/her skills. The features of fine art photography today. The trends and the teaching of the photographic medium. Photography collecting and its evolution. Commercial art galleries as facilitators between photographers and collectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]