Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My philosophical question is, artistically, what is GOOD photography? A 6 year old with a P&S could just as easily win a prize as an old, bitter photographer who has been perfecting his craft for 50 years. So who is "better?" At 06:23 PM 4/8/98 -0700, Jim Brick wrote: >If photography is to be called art, it too must comply with the rules. Art >is in the eye of the beholder. What is art to one person, is junk to >another. That's why artists make a lot of money selling but-ugly sculptures >to city councils all over the US. And they then plant them out front where >no one can avoid looking at them. I've been to plenty of photography >exhibits where the photographs weren't suitable for lining bird cages. But >hey... it's in the eye of the beholder and the beholder has the right >(perhaps the obligation) to voice his/her opinion. Any time you criticize >something, you will get flack. Automatically. So why is it that if you heap >praises on something that is so bad, it has zero merit, no one will take >you to task? Perhaps people believe only goodness and if they don't agree >with it, they think something is wrong with them, not the expounder. > >So practice your freedom of speech. If you don't use it, you will loose it! > >Jim > > >At 05:29 PM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote: >>I personally find it very amusing that so many people are upset about >>someone's honest appraisal of Eric pics. So what if Becker doesn't >>like the images ? Becker is still entitled to have that opinion and >>to be able to post that view without being lambasted for it. >> >>ANYONE has the right to an opinion on photographs, and has the right to >>express that opinion on the net, or on the LUG. The notion that one >>person's opinion on a photograph is someone better than someone else's >>is bullshit as far as I am concerned. Either you like it or you don't, >>that's all there is to it. Other factors like experience, awards, LUG >>contributions, how well someone is liked, what your mother said, or >>how it will be received by the defenders of Eric, are all irrelevant >>when it comes down to "Do you like the picture or not?" >> >>That the LUG Police want to verbally abuse and flame anyone for posting >>a negative appraisal of Eric's pics shows far more about the Gestapo >>than it does about Eric's pics or someone who isn't particularly >>impressed by them. >> >>What about the freedom of speech and the discussion of ideas? >> >>To avoid similar problems in the future, please post guidelines of >>what LUG members may or may not write or think. >> >>Stephen Gandy >> > Francesco Sanfilippo, Five Senses Productions webmaster@5senses.com http://www.5senses.com/