Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Autofocus Leica R
From: Patrick Jelliffe <pbjbike@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:56:53 -0800 (PST)

- --- Adam Bridge wrote:

> Well there are some seriously distorted statements
> here.
> 
> First, of course, Beethoven wasn't deaf from birth.
> He composed a substantial
> amount of his work when he could hear. Many
> criticisms of his later work involve
> his inability to handle dynamic range, esp in the
> 9th Symphony. He did much
> better in his small work.
> 
> Music, of course, is fundamentally abstract.
> 
> I'm going to make a distinction between "blind" and
> "visually impaired". There
> are many legally blind who can still make out
> light/darkness. I was taking
> "blind" to mean those who cannot see or distinguish
> any measure of light and
> darkness at all and perhaps those who never could.
> 
> BD has it right, I think. If you have never seen
> light, never perceived value,
> color, visual texture, then working with a
> photograph is potentially a curiosity
> but I'm not sure it qualifies as anything other than
> performance art. 
> 
> If I hear "politically correct" again in this
> context I'll barf. Screw it. Just
> let the blind person be the judge of the work,
> critique it, and improve it based
> upon critiques of the blind.
> 
> I think it's no different than having me attempt
> elegant mathematics. I KNOW I
> no appreciation for it and no ability and no insight
> into it. I'm "blind" to it.
> It's just a fact of life. 


Art is SUBJECTIVE, Adam, and attempts to create
absolutes to judge the artist, his/her creative
process, or the finished work will fail. 

Patrick


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