Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Byron Rakitzis wrote: snip In the sports field, the stop > >watch will trace the difference between good and not as good. Here it > >is all down to subjectivity. snip > Photography is a kind of "stochastic" art form: a good photographer is > distinguished by a large body of successful photographs. Any one single snip > But if you look at this more closely, it's actually not that different > from other kinds of art, it's just expressed in an extreme form: anybody > can get lucky and make a single good brushstroke, or play a single good snip And the difference between someone who has made that (huge) > investment of time and someone who just dabbles is usually quite apparent. >> Byron. Wouldn't success in this free enterprise economic system of ours have a lot to do with is this person still standing up at the end of the month? Has this person starved to Death? If not this person must have sold some of his photographs and with that money bought food. If this person had wild delusions about his abilities as a photographer meaning as an artist, craftsperson and businessperson wouldn't those delusions be shattered as he falls to his knees in starved weakness? I guess for every hack photographer there is a secret source of income that pays the bills. But when you see his book you don't have to hire him and if you can't tell the difference then you don't care. My basic tactic for dealing with hacks and people that are an embarrassment in this business is: OUTLAST THEM They usually don't persist. Survival of the fittest with "fit" having at least two other meanings. Mark Rabiner