[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Tim Rudman" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:51:00 -0000
And probably pointless too ;-)
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
Tim
That's a good point, because it leaves the creation of art to all media, but
it avoids to define art. That's the point where it gets interesting and
possibly endless.
On 2006-12-16 11:33, "Tim Rudman" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The "Is Photography Art?" debate is misguided IMHO. Photography is a
> tool - or a medium, depending on how used - that's all. Is painting
> art? Is drawing art? Is xxx art? (add your own permutations).
> The product of their use can be art - or not. Painting a garage door
> generally isn't. Painting a canvass might be.
> Tim
>
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>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I used to rise regularly to the question "Is Photography Art?".
> It has been flicked over the surface of books and magazines for as
> long as I have been drowning Ilford paper in dim red-lit closets.
> Sometimes it has a hook embedded in it: "Apologise for being able to
> illustrate the world far better than I, the easel artist. Then I might
> let you have some exhibition space. As long as you don't sell more
pictures than I do."
>
> Ouch. That sort of baggage is generally hard to lift, much less carry.
>
> I have started turning the question inside out and back to front.
> " Is Art Photography?" and I attach the silent implication "Badly
> done....".Apart from getting hit in the side of the head one time with
> a coffee-table book on Monet, it has been a good ploy. The original
> questioner has to defend their "vision" and skill - or lack of it -
> and the discussion can heat up a small room nicely.
>
> If the "artist" successfully justifies their "art" I like to
> finish - just before running away - with the comment that it is a pity
> that they can't really repeat their triumph from one canvas to the
> next, what with the variables of their medium and waning
> skills....Would they like me to take some really good copy shots so
> that I can reproduce the painting.? Who knows, somebody might like to buy
a phot for the wall.....
>
> Uncle Dick
>
> PS: I realise I haven't contributed an answer to the question but I
> can't remember the question.
>
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