[pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
- From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:58:54 +0100
The definition of art isn't pointless. Difficult it may be, but pointless? I
agree that it could even be different from person to person, but I need to
know what people mean if they use a word, otherwise, how can I understand
what they are talking about? And, do they know what they are talking about
if they can't define it?
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-12-16 15:51, "Tim Rudman" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And probably pointless too ;-)
>
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> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
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> 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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>> [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stein
>> Sent: 16 December 2006 00:42
>> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Quest and My Heresy??
>>
>> 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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