[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:42:30 +0100
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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