Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WOW! art versus information
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 13:32:07 -0700
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animal wrote:
> 
> I find it strange in these discussions that people use words like "fartsy".
> Obviously English is not my native tongue but I sense a lack of semantic
> knowledge here.
> Clearly a photographic picture can do 2 things at once namely
> record information and emotion.
> Logically one could try to split the 2 but one would allways fail.
> As an example even a line pair test chart might induce emotion in a viewer
> unintentionally.
> I believe that the best photojournalism,s examples both
> transmit  powerful emotion and as much information as needed to know the
> context.
> As allways apologies for the bad english.
> best regards
> simon jessurun
> amsterdam the netherlands
> 



Yes but some people think photography is two things namely:

Artsy 

and Fartsy.


Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.markrabiner.com
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