I would argue that beauty is truth and truth is beauty.
Does an artist change perceptions of reality as Darwin and Einstein did? I don't think so. Perhaps an artist provokes us to reconsider the meaning of freedom. Most artists defend freedom almost as a condition reflex. So there must be a connection.
Leica perfected the lens alowing us to faithfully record the truth. Steve Shapiro tells us that Digital lenses change the fundamental nature of lenses. Is this not the fundamental nature of truth?
Do we as artists invent reality? I dont think so? Am I a digital invention? I think not.
Bob
John Palcewski wrote:
This thread is--pardon my saying so--utterly absurd. A wide angle lens--made for digital or otherwise--renders an image that is not exactly faithful to how the unaided eye sees, hence it is untruthful. But who cares? A lot of things happen after a photograph is taken. You select one image from many. Whether you intend to ultimately tell the truth or lie about a subject is up to you. "Facts of nature?" "Truth of the lens?" Ha! If you're really a photographer you're out there making images, not wasting time with this psuedo-philosophial BS.
John
Isola d' Ischia, Italia http://www.livejouornal.com/users/forioscribe
> is not the cone of light from our lens also a fundamental fact of > nature?
> Or have those we trust become so digitized that we lose the > truth of the lens?
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