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I read the question on PhotoForum, "What is a
photograph?" sat down to read a book and lo and behold - an answer
appeared. (A complete accident, I assure you.)
Aristotle said all art imitates
action.
"Not physical activity, but the
movement-of-spirit."
By imitation he meant the, ". . .
representation of the countless forms which the life of the human spirit may
take." (I'm taking all this from Aristotle's Poetics.)
Aristotle continued:
The arts may be distinguished in three
ways.
Object imitated, or the particular action
recorded.
Medium employed-words, paint, pixels,
film, dance, sounds, etc. used to record the action.
Manner-representing the action through the
artist's eyes.
Since the above definitions are for all art
forms, I think representing action through pixels count, too.
Just the ramblings of someone who isn't quite
awake, but maybe worth thinking about?
Marilyn
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