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P3D Painting with Light (was Holga vs Hassy for instance)
- From: Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: P3D Painting with Light (was Holga vs Hassy for instance)
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 00:14:57 -0400
>In P3D Digest 3446 Gabriel Jacobs says:
>> I really hate ;-) grabbing on to this slippery rope
Ahhh, I knew it would be slippery,...
David W. Kesner writes,
>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).
The exact same thing applies to photographs. For example, there are
countless famous photographs, that a person could copy, but it would
be very hard to pass, as an original.
There is a very good discussion relating to this thread in the Time-
Life Photography Series, namely "The Camera" volume. The first chapter
describes Photography as, "The Art for Everyman." The chaper, "Painting
with Light" is also very illuminating! On the last page, "A Shared
Point of View," there is an example of a painter copying a photograph
that was taken by someone else! Food for thought.
>If I was to copy a poem and hand it to you would you consider that
>art?
Agreed (?), the answer would be no.
>If I was to compose an original poem, write it down and hand it
>to you would you consider that art?
Yes, regardless of if you wrote it down or typed it, printed it, or
emailed it to me. ;-) The reason is because the content is the art,
the media is secondary in these particular cases.
Gabriel
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