Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Is it art?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:55:49 -0600
References: <AANLkTin33VvLv2JncD_T3=bdFz8tZj+HNK70arxoXnJh@mail.gmail.com>

So the underlying questions become:
Does the photographer consider themselves an artist?
and
Does (s)he call the photograph art?

One thing I know for sure
Quan displays beautiful black and white photographs on his 1lens blog.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Quan asks, with reference to his photo of a James /dean statue,
> 
> http://1lens.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/james-dean/
> 
> 
> "I also wonder when a photographer takes a photograph of someone else's art
> work; can he then call his photograph a work of art?"
> 
> - - - - -
> 
> Fear not, Q. Marcel Deuchamp settled this point among artists for all time
> by saying "If an artist calls his work 'art', then by definition it is a
> work of art."



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