[Leica] Photo show dissent

[Richard Man]

I presume you might be speaking tongue in cheek, but St. Adam and Gene
Smith would have loved photoshop. They would do it as much as possible
without post processing, but to say they wouldn't use the best available
tools would be silly.
On Mar 22, 2015 3:44 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>
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