[pure-silver] Re: Censorship Links

I was gone for a week but I'm back.

Bob, I enjoyed seeing your photograph of Michelangelo's statue. I enjoyed
the whole gallery.

As for the photos that were taken down from the Mistlin Gallery, they are
being shown in a nearby town. :)

 * *http://www.modbee.com/scene/story/151584.html

Becky Lynn


On 12/11/07, BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>        A good friend, art historian, and Fulbright scholar asked me if my
> photo of Michelangelo's statue would have been permitted or rejected from
> this show.  Interesting but ironic question.
>        http://bobkiss.com/gallery/homage.htm
>        I have been forwarding her some of the postings and she said that
> Michelangelo's statue has more obvious sexual content than the photos that
> were removed from the show.
>                CHEERS!
>                        BOB
>
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> [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Schnetzler
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 6:10 PM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Censorship Links
>
> "Ceci n'est pas une voiture"...!
>
> Manu
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:56:53 AM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Censorship Links
>
>
>    Which completely supports the point that it is the job of art
> educators, museums, galleries and artists to help the public understand
> what
> has been going on in photographic art since the 1920s...the
> understanding
> that a photograph can be MORE than, or DIFFERENT from, a simple
> representation!
>    Recently I gave a lecture on what constitutes value in art.  I
> always start this type of lecture by holding up a b&w photographic
> print of
> an automobile.  I ask the group, "What is this?"  The vast majority
> say, "It
> is a car."  I then proceed to hit on of the audience over the head with
> the
> print.  Everyone laughs.  I ask, "Why is he/she still alive?  I have
> just
> dumped a car on his/her head!"  They moan and say, "but it is just a
> photo
> of a car" to which I reply "RIGHT!!!  A two dimensional, monochromatic
> representation and abstraction from the REALITY OF THE SUBJECT!!!  This
> is
> more than semantics...it is fundamental to the understanding of the
> artistic
> capabilities of photographic art!"
>    You are right that the photographically uneducated public sees a
> photo as the reality of the subject.  We all hope that gallery owners,
> selection committees, fellow artists, and the more photographically
> sophisticated public might know better.  And, as said above, it is the
> responsibility of these same more enlightened people to expose the
> general
> public to these concepts.
>
>        HOLIDAY CHEERS!
>            BOB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gianni Rondinini
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:39 PM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Censorship Links
>
> B P ha scritto:
> > The show is called, Figuratively Speaking.
> [...]
>
> i think that a photograph makes difference from any other figurative
> art. photograph is recognized by people as the reproduction of
> something
> 'real' and when looking ad an image people feels in front of the
> subject.
>
> in front of one of those drawings (not bad ones, but not even nice
> drawings, imvho) the 'watcher' simply sees something 'related' to a
> nude
> body, not a real one.
>
> this is why, always imvho, people complained about nudes in
> photography.
>
> regards,
>
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