[Leica] Re: Photography as art

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Apr 29, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Dan K. wrote:

> I read a newspaper article that photography is losing its place as a
> serious art form. It took many years for photo images to become
> acceptable.  Of late, art galleries are exhibiting less and less
> photographs. Art collectors seem to be less interested in acquiring
> photographs.

I don't know about collectors but more and more art museums are 
mounting photography exhibits. The advent of digital manipulation has 
blurred the line between pure photography and fine arts. My wife, an 
accomplished artist, has won numerous prizes for her multimedia works 
incorporating digitally manipulated photographs, painting, and collage. 
She has exhibited at both the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum of 
Art. She claims that digital massaging of the image frees her from the 
constraints of the geometry imposed by the camera's optics.

Incidentally she is a purist. She will never work on an image that she 
didn't photograph herself. My pictures are safe.

Larry Z