Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 11/12/01 10:19 AM, John R. Fulton Jr. at JRFjr@compuserve.com thoughtfully wrote: > Talking the talk and walking the walk is very important in the "art" > world. This photographer talked about his work and even did a > demonstration for you. You may not have been impressed but he > probably impressed anybody else standing around. Speaking about your > work is very important in the art world. I hate talking about my > pictures. My wife, an artist (she has the Master of Fine Arts degree > to prove it), says I MUST talk about my pictures. I just HATE this philosophy - although it's all over - painting, sculpture, writing, what-have-you. I've always believed, rather stupidly it turns out, that a work stands by itself. There's the image: take what you wish from it. Now I'd be happy to tell someone where it was taken, and perhaps who the subject is, etc. But what I wanted the viewer to take from the picture is, well, in the image. I profoundly distrust artists who feel obliged to shower me all the angst that went into their work: I DON'T CARE. Oh well, I'll let the deconstructionists have their way with me. Adam Bridge - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html