[pure-silver] Re: Interesting article about an old lens on Wired.com

  • From: Dana Myers <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:30:21 -0700


Hello Bob, you wrote:
I deduced that you could give
someone as visually creative and technically amazing as Hiro a coke bottle
stuck on one end of a shoe box with a Polaroid back on the other and he
could make an amazing image.  It always has been and always will be the
artist who sees/conceives the great image and uses his/her craft to the best
of their abilities to create the amazing object of art.  Again, agreed that
better tools make for more efficient craftwork and technically perfect
results but, as mentioned in the article, sometimes one can use the "limits"
or "defects" in a tool to produce more interesting results.  Pinhole and
Holga photos are perfect examples.
I could not agree more!  A technically-perfect but boring photograph is still
a boring photograph (except for a small group of people that find technical-
perfect along to be exciting).  An exciting photograph - even with technical 
flaws -
is always an exciting photograph.

Cheers!
Dana

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