P3D Re: Holga vs Hassy for instance

["David W. Kesner" <drdave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In P3D Digest 3446 Gabriel Jacobs says:

> 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. ;-)

It is not that it has to be hard to duplicate. It is a matter of being able 
to tell the original from a duplicate. In the case of a poem or other 
writing it has to be a matter of acknowledgment of who said it first. 
Once it has been said and acknowledged it is a simple matter to 
spot a fake (plagerism).

If I was to copy a poem and hand it to you would you consider that 
art? If I was to compose an original poem, write it down and hand it 
to you would you consider that art?

I find the lines to be very clear and easy to define. However, I can 
see why others do not.

That's all for now,

David W. Kesner
Boise, Idaho, USA
drdave@xxxxxxxxxx


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