Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu notes that most traditional photography constitutes an "institutional piety" that serves to integrate groups within society. This ranges from family snapshots to wedding photography and even photojournalism. That's the reason that photography "so rarely fulfils a properly aesthetic function, and why properly artistic ambition is encountered particularly among those individuals or social catagories most throughly freed from traditional functions." - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html