Re: PHOTOFORUM digest 6427 - art ? no !

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“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

Just wondering if he would have been a happy iPhone and app user …

Klaus

On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hmm you might be surprised right now bob.   There are iPad painting shows at major museums happening as well as phone photo's click link go to bottom of page to see slide show. 

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Randy S. Little
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

How many phone images are hanging in musea around the world?

Bob

On 1/7/2014 3:32 AM, Dan Mitchell wrote:

And here I must re-enter the lists, as I have never been convinced, despite what some are seem to be saying, that photography is ever "ART".

Art, for me, is e.g. drawing or painting with real paint, whether oil, gouache, egg-tempera, or whatever; or hacking out the "Three Graces" from a huge lump of marble.

Photography is something different - as someone has, more or less, said - any fool with a phone these days can take an award winning photo., if happily in the right place at the right time.  To the great majority out away from our cloistered world photography is just happy snaps, records of visits, sometimes evidence - but rarely "ART" - very few will have an Ansel Adams print on their walls, and even fewer would ever consider photography arty enough to pay the enormous sums demanded for an A.A. original print.

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