Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was in college there was one teacher (I REFUSE to call this guy a professor) in the photo section who was into the art stuff. I was a journalism major and not too terribly interested in some of the junk this guy was into. Anyway the first day in class I turned in some stuff I shot around town. He hated it and went off about how bad it was..funny cause the next day one of the pics from that take was on the front of the now dead Nashville Banner. After that I shot rocks on the side of the interstate...he loved it and I made an A in the class....He would talk on and on about how I spent so much time looking for these shots ect...BS I spent maybe 10 minutes max shooting....then made up some good BS about the photos and what they symbolized (I was an English minor after all) and made a good grade. The best one was a friend of mine came up to me really upset cause all of his stuff looked like KAKA...out of focus underexposed and generally terrible. He had forgotten about the next days assignment till midnight the night before. It was raining so he rode around in a hatch back with the hatch up shooting photos.....I told him to tell the teacher he was trying to show what the world looks like to a drunk driver....he got a B on something that should have been an F just for making up this BS.... BTW please note I am not anti art...just don't think art should be defined by the words placed on it. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck IMHO it is a duck no matter what you call it. On 7/14/99 5:09 PM Zeissleica@aol.com wrote: >One of my instructors said art is anything we touch as "artists" (note the >distinction between touching and creating). He loved my project; I gathered >up 30 bags of leaves, trudged up to the top of an 18 story building with >them, leaned out a window and burned tons film as they were dumped off the >top floor (almost got arrested for it). > >I thought it was a joke, but he gave me an A for the piece. Best regards, Harrison McClary email: harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net preview my book: http://www.volmania.com