[Leica] Is it art?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Yes its known as Art Art.


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> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:40:08 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Is it art?
> 
> Quan asks, with reference to his photo of a James /dean statue,
> 
>  http://1lens.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/james-dean/
> 
> 
> "I also wonder when a photographer takes a photograph of someone else's art
> work; can he then call his photograph a work of art?"
> 
>  - - - - -
> 
> Fear not, Q. Marcel Deuchamp settled this point among artists for all time
> by saying "If an artist calls his work 'art', then by definition it is a
> work of art."
> 
> 
> Of course the viewers may not think so but that is their problem, not his.
> 
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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