[Leica] Photo show dissent

[Ken Carney]

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, that¹s 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.
>