So, I listened to this bourgois dip sh!@ tell about how to buy a box with
art materials in order to be an artist is a marketing ploy. Downer!
Buy a Barret and try it on for a day, be an artist! :)
There is an add for a Lotus super seven KIT. Be a race driver. Then
there's the guy who came into my gallery dressed for the getto. Except for
the fact that I recognized his grunge clothes to be 1) clean and 2) pretty
pricey, he was believeable in an extreme way. He is this formula car
designer [by the way this was during the formula one world champion races at
our nearby track] who said, "You can't even START to think about formula
racing for less than $500 million, today.
Yeah. Put that in a box. But, the guy with his Lotus super seven is no
less a race driver.
And, by the way ... I heard that about the guy with a camera is a
photographer, but the guy with a piano has a piano. Very know nothing
comment. The person with a camera in their hand taking pictures is a
photographer, the person with a piano playing it is a musician.
And, that old chestnut you're not an artist unless somebody tells you you're
an artist is crap. I am whatever I want to be when I wake up in the morning
and the rest of the world can take a flying leap!
S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "jason stone" <jasonstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: 6th August Gallery - comments
On 8/10/05, SteveS <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Don't worry - I will. But the day I start to call myself an artist ...
> please shoot me.
>
>
> bob
Just for interest, what's the problem with calling yourself an artist?
S. Shapiro
There are some that believe the title of artist is given by others,
not by ones self.
There was a LensWork Magazine Podcast that covered that topic not too long
ago.
The link to many of the individual MP3s are at
http://www.lenswork.com/lwb.htm
and the exact audio file is at
http://www.lenswork.com/blog/050727hi.mp3
If you want to subscribe to the Podcast feed, they have a description here
http://www.lenswork.com/lwpc.htm
