Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/27

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photography and Art Photography/ was grad school.
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:55:20 -0500
References: <12f.83ff092.2935529d@aol.com>
 
ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:

> French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu notes..."


No! French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu OPINES...

>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
> 
> 


- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html
Replies: Reply from Paul Chefurka <chefurka@rogers.com> (Re: [Leica] OT:Photography and Art Photography/ was grad school.)
 In reply to: Message from ARTHURWG@aol.com (Re: [Leica] OT:Photography and Art Photography/ was grad school.)