Re: [Leica] art

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Dave-
I like your post! Art is very subjective and emotional. Trying to pin it
down is like the analogy of the 60's- "Like trying to nail Jell-o to a
tree...."
Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: DAVE YODER <leica@home.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:58 PM
Subject: [Leica] art


>Let's ease up on art, for art's sake (not you, Art). If it provokes some
>kind of emotional response or introspection, or just some little
>intangible feeling somewhere, who's to say it isn't art? Some of this
>sounds a bit like "serious artist" grumblings about photojournalism not
>being art during the last decade while it was exploding on the "art scene."
>When I saw selections from the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts
>(hope I got that right) permanent collection, a very large percentage of
>the ones they chose to display were clearly from within the realm of
>photojournalism (can't be precise on the %). And, I might add, they were
>usually more engaging in one way or another than the ones that were not
>journalistic (now, I wouldn't want to try to define journalism either).
>I mean, how many bleached cow skulls perched on desert rocks can one
>take? (with all due respect to any luggers who've taken pictures of
>bleached cow skulls on desert rocks).
>
>My favorite artist of any genre, Ani Difranco, sang it well:
>
>"I'm living for something I can't even define."
>
>--Dave