Ceci n'est pas une chaise Apologies to Magritte. Andrew On 9/3/2010, "YGelmanPhoto" <ygelmanphoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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 > > >On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:39 PM, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: > >> Well we had a retired philosopher give a talk to our photo club and >> he convinced 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 >> >> >> >> In a message dated 9/1/2010 12:03:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ygelmanphoto@xxxxxxxxx >> writes: >> To me, they raise the question of what, exactly, is a photograph -- >> even a photo, say, of a chair. Clearly the photo "of a chair" is not >> a chair, but it's one representation of a chair >> > > >
