Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its interesting how photography has always encompassed such a diversity of output. Its art/craft/recording/archive etc etc On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 02:44 Australia/Melbourne, Tina Manley wrote: > LUG: > > An editorial about how the decisive moment is no longer relevant in > current photography: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31924-2003Oct28.html > > In part: > Fine photography, awkwardly renamed "photo-based art," is now about > using your film as an art supply like any other, with a highly > planned, complex, fully conceptualized picture as the end result. > Photographic artists are no longer hunters, prowling the world for the > most beautiful or striking prey they can find. They've become > taxidermists and diorama makers, using manipulated bits and pieces of > the world to make a studied point about how it works, or doesn't work, > or might work if the rules were changed. > > Explanations like this remind me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip about > art. The article even mentions Leica so it's on topic! > > Tina Alastair - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html