Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:33:30 -0400, "M.E.Berube - GoodPhotos" <meb@goodphotos.com> wrote: >But is it art? > >Comments, Critiques? To me they look a bit self-conscious. Not the subjects, but the images themselves. It may be due to the anonymity of the participants, maybe the contrast of the images, maybe the posing. The large graphic forms coupled (sorry :-) with the contrast removes the images from the purely human (emotional?) realm, and objectifies both the people and their activities. It may be this objectification that some find disturbing - I know it disturbed me - and causes the pictures to be identified as porn rather than a more straightforward sexual relationship between lovers. Is it art? Images like this could be viewed as art, but only within the context of a larger body of work. To consider these pictures, in isolation, as art, I'm pretty sure one would have to be from New York City. Certainly they wouldn't be identified as such in a camera club competition :-) FWIW, I enjoyed the exercise of looking at them. I like pictures that make me ask why I responded to them as I did. My own efforts in this vein were very different in tone, and seeing a similar subject approached so differently is always good for a bit of introspection. Paul Chefurka