P3D Re: Holga vs Hassy for instance

[Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr.Roberts typed:
>> I suspect that unless the subject is something like passport photos, it's
>> very hard to isolate the art from the photography.

And Mr.Kesner typed back:
>Actually this is very easy to answer. It is all photography as you are 
>simply capturing an image. Anyone could push the button on the 
>camera and record the same identical image. Yes, you have made 
>individual choices that have created a unique image, but they could 
>all be very easily duplicated by anyone to produce an identical 
>image.
>
>With art, there is no way to exactly reproduce a brush stroke or 
>curve of clay. Yes, there are those who can make very good 
>forgeries that all but the best could never tell from the original, but 
>they can be detected by experts.

I really hate ;-) grabbing on to this slippery rope but since when do
pictures (or whatever!) have to be hard to duplicate, to be defined as
art? I guess poetry isn't art, since it can easily by copied, unless
of course it's written by hand, in which case it would be qualified as
art. ;-)

On a similar note, regarding the equipment thread,...
This reminds me of a true story of a famous photographer, who was well
known for his amazing portrait shots (I forget who and I apologize if
I'm not getting the story straight but the point is clear) who was
commissioned to photograph a famous newspaper reporter. The
photographer took the reporter's portrait and when he saw it a few
days later, exclaimed how great it was and how easy it must have been
to take with such an expensive camera. The photographer returned the
compliment by mentioning, how easy it must be to write great stories
with that expensive typewriter! 

Mr.Jacob ;-)



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