The meaning of life and 3D photography (or "give me art or give me death!")

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> the worse kinds is the boring one.  The one that makes you wonder:  "Why 
> did this person take this picture and why is he showing it to us?"

This brings (segway's) up a bigger question:

	Is the only purpose of 3D photography "art"? 

And:

	Is the only purpose of 3D photography in a competition or 
        during a club's open projector activity "art"?


And if the activity isn't purely pursuit of "art", then how does this
affect judging of images shown and how does this affect comments like
the one quoted of Ansel Adams a few days ago (which seem to presume
that art is the *only* reason for photography)?

The answer to these questions also relates to someone's observation that
3D photography is more difficult to contort into non-reality than 2D
photography (parenthetically perhaps meaning that it's purely an art form
that has trouble detesting reality like all good art form should).

I hope I haven't hinted my opinion too much, but I think a lot of
dissussion has gone on without clearly understanding the context
of that being disscussed.  Or how things "fit together" in the 
fabric of things.  Questions then come up that are hard to answer
(like George's good question above) fully unless the question's
position in the overall fabric is defined.

Or go get back to the subject line, what's the "meaning of
life and 3D photography"?


Mike K.


P.S. - Here's an example to start with: 
       If I bring in a 3D photograph of the rock that "proves" that
       life existed on Mars, and the photograph is pure and sheer reality.
       Looks exactly as if the rock were in front of you.  No emotional
       additives at all.  Purely documentary.  No "interpretational"
       manipulation whatsoever.  I had the rock for ten minutes and I 
       took it's picture because I'd have to give it back.  Wouldn't the
       photo be "interesting" to be shown?  Would it be "art"?  How would
       knowledge that it's *that* rock affect the "goodness" of that 
       image?  A piece of cr** if unexplained, but fantastic and really
       neat/interesting if explained -- even though it's the *same* slide?

P.P.S. - I *do* already know the answer to the ultimate question is '42'.  :-)     
   


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