Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Can you imagine Ansel with Photoshop, or Gene Smith? Well, crap, that darkroom fire burned the top part of my Half Dome neg but I can fix it in post... Ken On 3/22/2015 3:59 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: > Larry, that?s a bigoted and historically unsupportable view. Photographers > have combined images to make totally conceptual scenes since the 19th > century, most famously by Jerry Uelsmann starting in the 1960s and > continuing to the present day. Ansel Adams famously stated that the > negative was like a musical score, a starting point that the artist uses > to produce the final performance (the print). > > Art and photography are most certainly NOT two different media. > Photography is an art media, one of many, including painting, sculpture, > ceramics, drawing, and graphic printmaking (eg. Etching, lithography). > There is a lot of overlap, these are not absolutely separate art forms. > The painter, sculptor and printmaker incorporate drawing into their work. > The printmaker can transfer photos to the etching plate. Photographers can > paint and draw on the photo, or manipulate it on the computer, and > computer graphics can be purely drawing without using photos. >