Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, Apr 29, 1997 7:11 AM, Ted Grant wrote: >This can produce some very nice photographs for ones wall and saves spending >money on the prints of others. :) There isn't anything like having folks visit >your home and complimenting you on "your work" hanging in the living room! > >And as far as buying prints of those I like, I prefer to collect books for my >personal library, as without books to learn photography, it is like trying to >sail the oceans without charts. Unfortunately, when you view a reproduction, you are viewing the work out of context, in the sense that you not necessarily seeing the scale, physical mounting, lighting and yes, print quality, that the artist intended. I am not advocating that a person purchase a costly work of art: Sometimes, it's enough just to see it on public display. Sometimes, it's not costly. I am interested in the works of others, because they may have totally different, yet equally valid, visions and means of expression: There is no right or wrong way to do it, and mistakes are rarely fatal, unlike being lost at sea. The Arts have gotten a bad rap as being somehow frivolous compared to say, a new elevated expressway and more parking spaces: Maybe if our values were reversed, we'd have a lot less brutal ugliness and mean-spiritedness in our daily lives. Jeff