ADavidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Just a thought - should images that have no connection > to reality be shown in our photography gallery? I'm not sure what *NO* connection means. I mean, a photo-realistic CGI rendering, to pick an example completely at random, is connected to reality by the definition of "photo-realistic". Sort-of. Whereas an absolutely "unmanipulated" but completely abstract photo -- the connection to reality is the direct source of the image, but *doesn't* control what it looks like at all. And I could take the pixels in a photo, not change a single one of them, but rearrange them into something completely different. So what I'm *sure* of is that making hard-and-fast rules that will be at all clear to people and will have desired effect (whatever that might be) is totally impossible. Furthermore, such hard-and-fast rules will trigger people into attempting to PUSH the boundaries; and if the rules are of any importance, then that's gonna be bad for the gallery. And yet I think that I would be happier with the gallery mostly populated by works that "make sense" when talked about and analyzed as photographs. Painting, say, is enough different that a bunch of photographers mostly won't have that much of interest to say to a painter about his painting. And that's a "mostly" above; seeing things that don't fit in *occasionally* is interesting. May I suggest that, if any rules are necessary, they should state the rough purpose of the gallery, leave the question of appropriateness up to the submitter, but reserve the right of the administrators to omit works that really don't fit the purpose of the gallery as they see it. And then don't do it very often; in particular don't do it unless a much more photographic work would have to be excluded to make room for the questionable one. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
