| Well, you remember the old thing "If it looks like..., and it smells like..., and it feels like.., then it's a ..."?
I think a photo "of a chair" fails at least two of those tests.
But we're straying from the subject of abstraction by talking about reality. What is that, anyway? No, wait, don't answer.
-yoram
Well we had a retired philosopher give a talk to our pho
every one that a picture of a chair is reality while the painting American Gothic , a painting by Grant Wood from 1930 of a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter was not reality. So photographs of real objects are now reality until we get a philosopher lecturer with a different point of view. Roy To me, they raise the question of what, exactly, is a photograp
hoto, say, of a chair. Clearly the photo "of a chair" is not
a chair, but it's one representation of a chair |
