Re: OK to have fun/color

[Steve Shapiro <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Re: OK to have fun/color


At 10:43 PM 11/23/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>Subject: Re: OK to have fun/color
>
>

>The control with color is just as exciting as with Black and White.  It's
>the print, and no painter can get pinpoint detail like a well rendered
>photograph.
>
>S. Shapiro, Carmel, CA
>


What is the significance of pinpoint detail regarding art?

AZ

In my opinion:  Your question is a little bit off the side of the highway
cut, but to answer it as best I can, it is MY OPINION that the medium of
photography is best shown with examples of artistic display by the
artists/photographers when the picture contains elements that are dependent
on the display within the work as detail.

Minor White's "Moonrise" fools us in every way until we examine the detail
and see it's stains against a rock wall that give the impression of a
moonrise.  Imogene Cunningham's 11X14 table tops are striking because of the
intimate detail more so afforded by the large format and printed on glossy
paper that makes the scene appear to be set in jello.

Except for the examples of Cartier Bressens, whose photography emulates the
medium's immediacy, the art of photography is, to me, best to show detail.

S. Shapiro
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