At 10:08 AM -0500 7/19/07, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Herschel Mair wrote:
The topic was whether rules, formulae, statistics and technical
knowledge of all things photographic could ever, conceivably, get
in the way of taking a great photograph.
Looking at the question Herschel wants us to address I think we can
simply never know. To begin with we have to come to a definition of
"great". As soon as we begin that one, we come right up against
"rules". How is this image great? Well, it does this and this and
that and that - and those things (characteristics, rules) make it
great for me. Well, turning to another person, do those things make
it great for you?
Aw no. I don't think this, or this, or that, or even that have
anything to do with greatness. In fact the image isn't even on my
list of "great" at all.
So one persons meat....
But it might be interesting to take a single image, widely respected
among photographers, and try to come to terms with what makes it
great to each of us.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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