As I said in the post Eric, my experience is having being trained in photography and understanding the views of experts in the field who psycho-analyze this kind of stuff. This provides the context for my view. May I ask why you are so sure that certain artists are not favoured in the art-world? I think you are struggling with the concept of photography as art- which is a way of looking at photography that has become second nature for me. Marvin. --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list