Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG: An editorial about how the decisive moment is no longer relevant in current photography: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31924-2003Oct28.html In part: Fine photography, awkwardly renamed "photo-based art," is now about using your film as an art supply like any other, with a highly planned, complex, fully conceptualized picture as the end result. Photographic artists are no longer hunters, prowling the world for the most beautiful or striking prey they can find. They've become taxidermists and diorama makers, using manipulated bits and pieces of the world to make a studied point about how it works, or doesn't work, or might work if the rules were changed. Explanations like this remind me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip about art. The article even mentions Leica so it's on topic! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html