Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I always felt the photographer has the first word. Which seems more important then the last word anyway. At 11:41 AM 8/25/2006, you wrote: >Actually, I found this "pretentious twerp" quite insightful, in that he >raises and deals with important issues. Photography is no more the "people's >medium" than is drawing or painting - every kid draws and paints in school; >not every kid photographs. For every talented painter or illustrator, there >are countless thousands of hacks, as is the case with photography. But >that's beside the point. The real questions raised and explored in the piece >are about what photography is or isn't, and how much the original artist's >vision should be seen as the last word, if you will, on a particular image. > > >On 8/25/06 10:59 AM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Lee, > > The reviewer is a pretentious twerp IMHO. In the first paragraphs he > admits > > that Walker Evans wasn't especially interested in the printing of the > > images. So, if a later person comes along and finds another story in the > > images then so what? (Assuming the pedigree of the images is clearly > > stated) What I got out of the reviewer was angst that the actual image > > could be gorgeous even though the content frequently was depressing. > > > > The truth of photography is that it is the peoples medium and the folks > > do > > what they will with the images. As a photographer, the only way to > > control > > your images is to destroy the originals when you are done with them. > > Otherwise, someone else may come along and re interpret what you did or > > didn't do. > > > > If you have a problem with loss of control then take up painting, but > > even > > there someone may come along a few hundred years later and "restore" the > > painting ala the Cistine Chapel. > > > > 0.02 > > > > Don > > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > On 8/25/06, Lee England <Engl6914@cableone.net> wrote: > >> > >> An interesting article I ran into in this morning's New York Times on an > >> exhibit of digital reproductions of Walker Evan's prints and the > >> problems > >> associated with their interpretation. > >> > >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/arts/design/25evan.html > >> > >> Lee England > >> Natchez, Mississippi > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049