Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 2/26/2005 3:26:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, paul@paulhardycarter.com writes: I think it's a question of definition. Photography, for me, has always meant the action of light on chemicals to create an image. I wish someone would come up with a word to describe the production of digital images and then we could all know what we're talking about. Producing an image on a computer and calling it a photograph is as preposterous as producing an image in a camera and calling it a drawing. P. Um.. Of course the first use of cameras did not involve chemistry at all. Also, I don't think print out paper utilized any chemistry to create an image. Just light falling on a piece of paper coated with a thin blend of minerals. I have a couple POP prints from the fifties that were never fixed, and if I could find them in this mess, I would electronically transmit them to you so you could examine them. Of course, the act of scanning them might destroy them, so I might just shoot them with my little Leica digicam ;-) You might have to shun the word "photograph" if you were to limit the act of creating a picture by light and chemistry alone, that is, give that process a unique name, as photography is pretty well defined as "writing with light." It seems useful to keep our options open when it comes to language use, at least for me. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish