Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photography and Art Photography/ was grad school.
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:21:08 -0500
References: <30.1e77fe39.29357b8c@aol.com>

ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:

> I admit that P. Bourdieu is no Susan Sontag, but here he goes again: 
> 
>     "The intention of cultivating artistic photography and of practising it 
> 'as an amature', for oneself, as an artist and without any hope of income 
> from it, seems to constitute one of the most stable norms of the photographic 
> profession." 


Boy, is he "deep." Of course he also could have written:

'The intention of cultivating artistic painting and of practising it 'as 
an amature', for oneself, as an artist and without any hope of income 
from it, seems to constitute one of the most stable norms of the 
painter's profession."


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