Marilyn Dalrymple wrote:
I sometimes hate to see a student who has a natural feel for
photography, or any art for that matter, being made to follow the
rules. They can be confining, and to a degree crippling.
I imagine the people doing it feel that the works are made better by the
conformity.
I've never taught photography, and don't think myself really competent
to do so beyond technical matters (which, in a serious program, would be
a rather small part of the whole, wouldn't they?), but it seems like a
photo teacher ought to be open to the idea of helping the students reach
whatever it is they're striving for, and able to have some sympathy for
artistic endeavors not to their personal taste; like, being able to
recognize something that half-works and explain the part that worked and
the part that didn't in a useful way.
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David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/dd-b
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