Re: PHOTOFORUM digest 6632

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Since you have outed yourself as a sexist pig in your next post, I guess it is fair to ask why if you’re going to shoot a chair in dead center of a frame wit ha very O’Keefian steer skull on it, why there could not be a nude sitting there with it in her lap?  Although there do not seem to be any set ‘rules’ other than the Rule of Thirds (which nobody told me about until I was 41 (and that includes AA), I generally prefer to see objects displayed as ’art’ pieces in the frame as an off-center element. As I recall, when I recently  asked a photographer about why something was dead center, I was met with the reply of “Why not?” Why not? Because it is static and as artists ,we try to maintain a sense of flow and move the eye from the front to the back of a shot or from on side to the other. If we have read some of the Time-Life Library of Photography books from the 1970’s (now at Amazon for cheap), including perhaps The Great Themes, then our eyes might have passed over a sentence or two about drawing the eye into a frame. 

Everybody else must be on vacation or at P+/East, which begins in a few days. Or even worse, they are too afraid to express themselves.


On Oct 16, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Klaus Knuth <klausknuthmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On that note:  Any thoughts on my latest photo on the gallery? Crappolia?
Please let me know, if you will.

Klaus

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, <klausknuthmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just wondering, too:  Why are quite a few on this list so touchy-feely?  If one of my comments or pictures sounds or looks like s%$# and someone tells me exactly that? That’s what it is all about. And quotes from artists around the world?  If they are long-winded but maybe still interesting for some of us?  So? Where’s the beef? If you don’t like them - don’t read them.

Klaus

On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Far be it for me to tell you how to see photography, but most of us here art trying to make art and art provides a broad spectrum of _expression_. As this forum has recently been hit with waves of emptiness as we ALL know about how to go about making an image on an iPhone or a Samsung device (point & click), from time to time I post articles or collections of articles gleaned from another source at RIT. I wrote none of those articles, and as I see them they are not actually articles at all. 

As to obscenities, if you don’t like the way America is going, move to another culture where the obscenities may be in a language you do not comprehend. “Obscenities” are all over US TV now, so perhaps moving to the UK and only watching the children’s channel on BBC is the answer. Barring that, perhaps cutting the cord and getting rid of the internet would be the way to go, as the obscenity-filled porn industry is pervasive.


On Oct 16, 2014, at 5:05 AM, Dan Mitchell <danmdan3842@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm having difficulty in seeing what all this about ART has to do with the PHOTOGRAPHIC purpose of this forum.  And we could do without the obscenities, please.

Dan.



On 16 Oct 2014, at 04:01, List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


   PHOTOFORUM Digest 6632

Topics covered in this issue include:

1) don't care about...
by Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

From: Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: don't care about...
Date: 16 October 2014 01:41:21 BST
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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Stills That Move: http://www.artfaul.com
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