Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] art?
From: Summicron1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:41:24 EST

In a message dated 11/2/99 8:10:36 AM, you wrote:
Art cannot be defined and defies all regulation. your friend is a snob. Art 
is anything you want to say it is. If you produce it, and you like it, it is 
art and if nobody else agrees with you now, who knows what tomorrow will 
bring?  Ask Van Gogh.

charlie trentelman
ogden, utah
>> 
>> During a recent discussion with a friend who takes mainly salon style
>> photography, he said that street photography is not artistic 
>> photography
>> because it breaks too many rules of composition, lighting, etc.
>> 
>> I said that as long as street photography (including candid 
>> and some forms
>> of documentary photography) captures the essence of life and 
>> the heartbeat
>> of the environment and does not appear grossly badly taken in 
>> terms of say
>> horizon, exposure, perspective, it is an artform in itself.
>> 
>> Any comments?
>> 
>> Dan K.