Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This fellow's blanket statements come off as ridiculous blather; without any knowledge of art or photographic history: "Film photography's artistic cachet was always that no matter how much darkroom fiddling someone added to a photograph, the picture was, at its core, a record of something real that occurred in front of the camera." ?B.S. Darkroom manipulation and traditional retouching went every bit as far as Photoshop. "Art and truth used to be fast friends." ?B.S. The best Art speaks truthfully; trash art lies and always has. Fine photoshopped photographs can express life's truth(s) or become nonsensical hype; just as paintings, illustrations, literature and other so called arts always have. Portrait studios have been sticking people in front of fake backgrounds for a hundred years. "The next great photographers?if there are to be any?will have to find a way to reclaim photography's special link to reality. And they'll have to do it in a brand-new way." ?talk about oxymoronic!? The truth(s) of the human condition, expressed through: music, sculpture, film, painting, drawing, poetry, literature, editorial cartoons, graphic novels traditional film, digital or experimental photography rely on the insight, intuition, integrity and vision of the art's creator; and has nothing whatever to do with the medium of choice. The viewer/listener of the art knows if the message rings true for them, no matter how it was created. This writer should have done some research into his subject and then maybe could have used his column inches to enlighten us on much of the brilliant work being done today (as well as historically) by photojournalists, fine art photographers, printmakers and yes even re-touchers and photoshop artists. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > http://www.newsweek.com/id/73349 > > > > > > Have a look at this Newsweek story about photography. Rather > interesting and > will probably create an interesting conversation. > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information