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On 3 Sep 2010, at 12:30, Andrew Sharpe <asharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
