Re: [Leica] What is fine art photography?

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

Please forgive me selectively quoting your post.

You seem to be implying that to be art it has to have a "positive" spin on
it. I cannot believe that you actually think this. You would thus exclude
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" and I could go on for many many hours listing art
works from all time periods that do not elevate the human spirit as you seem
to say they should.

John Collier


> From: Nick Poole <nick.botton@camphill.org.uk>
> 
> So I look for something indefinable, yet recognisable, in art that
> elevates the human spirit; that opens new vistas of hope and
> idealism, that suggests greater dimensions for human faculties than
> those we possess today. To dwell on the sordid and depressing can
> certainly be educational or prick an uneasy conscience, but
> ultimately art is about more than that - it is a testament to the
> human spirit which is capable of the very highest aspirations.