For what it's worth - Photographers "take" pictures (and doctor's take X-rays). It seems that measurments or data is collected by "taking" it. Painters don't take pictures they make them. In other words "taking" (a picture) involves converting the concrete to the abstract whereas "making" involves only the abstract. So, it is OK for artists to invent names for process without having to "illuminate" what that means. It is conventional to call post-camera work "making" pictures. For art we use the name of the process: "drawing pictures", PhotoShopping pictures," etc.. The distinctions are clear, at least to photographers, when they say "I'm making a photograph or "I'm taking a picture." AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 2nd ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Real scanned photos? > From: "Don Roberts" <droberts@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, February 19, 2005 7:39 pm > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Uh, Jim, the Seggerman site says the images are made without the aid > of a "camera lens". Nothing there to indicate she doesn't know a > scanner has a lens. I don't see a problem with the lack of > information about the machinery used but that's just me. The > Kauffman site says very plainly that they were done with a flatbed > scanner. > Don > > James B. Davis wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:59:35 -0600, Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxx> > > wrote/replied to: > > > > > >>Interesting. Now here is another site with a slightly different > >>result from the same basic method. > >> http://www.illumigraphs.com/ > > > > > > A question, but no answer: > > > > "What is an Illumigraph? > > An illumigraph is a light etching, an optical image produced without > > the aid of a camera’s lens." > > > > Optical but with no lens, hmmm. Makes one wonder if these 'artists' > > really know their medium. I mean is it possible someone can be a > > flatbed scanner 'artist' and not know that inside that box is a lens? > > > > These images actually look like they were done on a flatbed scanner. I > > find it strange that they don't say so anywhere on these pages. > > > > > > -- > =========================================== > "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean > Vernon Wormer > ===========================================
