Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike: While I value what you said about seeing, I am troubled you your view of the uninitiated. This assertion: "generally, 95% of the population wouldn= 't know a really good photograph if it were an alligator and bit them on the ass." Demonstrates exactly the pompous attitudes of academics which puts public funding for the arts in jeopardy. It's nice that you feel qualifie= d to anoint the 5% who have enough taste to know the real thing. But entertain the thought for a moment that you have so intellectualized something spiritual that *you* wouldn't know a good photograph if it . . . Art, (big A) communicates. Dance, song, painting, photography are valuabl= e when the allow emotions or memory to be communicated, stored and recommunicated. As a neophyte I love Bach's Concerto in A & D for the way it moves me. Another might identify it's mastery for the technical achievement, or deconstruct it to find it's place in history, but I am closer to the music. You can try all you want to complicated art, and lift up one ideal as loftier than the other, but history will always have it's say, and histor= y values beauty, not things that need to be explained and defended.=20 Sorry guys, I couldn=92t keep my mouth shut on this one, Let the flames b= egin. Tom =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Thomas Kachadurian WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria