Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, I'm with you on that 100%. Creating photographs for me is about exploring the boundaries rather than replicating the previous. What is art if not an exploration of the new? A search for the, until then, unexposed. I see no acheivement in recreating something which has been done, I see everything in finding one's own personal vision of the world. To be aware of one's visual interests but not driven by them, to have an awareness of the history of the medium but not tied to it, to create something of oneself, rather than of another, is what my understanding of photography is all about. (sorry to end the sentence on a preposition, but then even Shakespeare did that!) Jem > ---------- > From: John Brownlow[SMTP:deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > I feel that aesthetic criteria are not > static, and I want mine to be challenged. And it is the job of the artist > to > challenge them. This is where 'art' photography tends to separate from PJ > or > any other 'message' oriented genre. > > John Brownlow > >