PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
>
> Ann Sanfedele wrote:
> >
The photograph is never going to replace
the reality - is never going to surpass it in beauty or in
ugliness or pain.
> >
> My point is that a photograph can surpass reality in beauty or ugliness
> or pain. So too, fine art. Do you believe that the historic David was
> more beautiful than Michaelangelo's rendering of him? A photograph of a
> simple flower can be prettier than the flower might actually be. The
> colors can be more vibrant, the lighting more refined, the background
> thrown out of focus in a way that the human eye can't achieve on its
> own. Of course artful photography (which I certainly have not mastered)
> is not the only appropriate use of a camera. Recording things exactly as
> one sees them is a noble pursuit as well. But neither is necessarily
> better than the other. Nor are those of us who attempt to alter reality
> unfortunate or sad in any way.
> What is truly unfortunate is that so many people have become so
> dogmatic about what they believe that they fail to understand or accept
> the beliefs of others.
> -
Ouch! Paul, you don't know me personally at all. This is an
intellectual
debate - it is the old what is art thing... I'd be a poor
artist if I didn't
think that my view was correct. You certainly should
believe yours is correct. You are entitled to yours. (um,
am I overreating to your last paragraph? A little defensive
maybe? Maybe <g>)
The line of mine,above, whre you quoted me is out of
context, of course, Hope
if some respond to it it is not with a knee jerk reaction.
I was really dealing
with some very specific things and , I thought, carrying
Shel's initial point
further.
Where a photograph may go beyond what was in front of the
photographer when
the shutter was released may, indeed, turn something mundane
into something
that approaches or is art because of the combination of
selection, light and
tone and because there is a moment in time that is frozen
and can be looked at
over and over. But the rabbit was in the hat. The art (or
craft) of the photographer is to pull the rabbit out of that
to show to people that didn't see it to begin
with on their own.
I wish you didn't sound so angry about all of this - it is
hard to communicate
here sometimes with only type and not expression and tone.
I feel I use rather
colorful language to get my point across but I think I'm
being dispassionate and
thoughtful in relaying it.
And now, alas, I have to go to the dentist and lose a
tooth. Not a pretty
picture.
annsan
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