Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<Discussions of photographic appeal tend to obscure the fact that ALL photographs are abstract representations of an external world. When Margaret Mead showed Tahitian natives black and white photographs of themselves and their village, they rotated the photos this way and that, shook their heads, and handed them back. "Nice designs", they said, "but what are they?" Mead then realized that photographs were such abstractions that only long experience enables their interpretation.>> Point well taken Larry, but maybe what your example shows is that all represenational art needs a little context. What would the natives have done with a stick figure? A painting? a drawing in the sand? How did the Tahitians represent an image of a human?