[Leica] Article on Photography

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

George,
I agree 100%. The reality is the marketplace, not what we want it to be in our dreams, and accepting reality is a necessity for a balanced view. Shutting our perceptions to reality on the basis of deeply cherished and entrenched biases is only for those who would vote for Trump..... :-) It is also worth keeping in mind that the word "better" is also a highly relative term....

We can always walk away from what we do not like, but the rest will surely open our minds to new avenues. This, IMHO, holds good for music and the written word, as well as the visual arts, be it painting, photography, cinema, etc. 

I collect Modern Indian Art, and have been doing so for close to 30 years now. Sometimes, I do not understand how a piece of art can sell for a million bucks, but there is at least one person, the buyer, who does know why. It is worth keeping that in mind.....

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 28-Aug-2016, at 23:23, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> The article suffers greatly from its total lack of visual examples; to substantiate such claims; doesn't even mention specific "artists" for us to reference. Makes the whole critique rather meaningless.
> 
> IMO… No matter what our age… we would do ourselves a favor to "keep up" not only technologically, but also aesthetically and conceptually.
> 
> 
> a note off the iPad, George
> 
> On Aug 28, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Interesting.
>> 
>> http://petapixel.com/2016/05/31/opinion-disturbing-trend-photography/
>> 
>> I agree, but then, I'm 70, too!
> 
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