Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Is it art?
From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:40:08 -0500
 
Quan asks, with reference to his photo of a James /dean statue,

 http://1lens.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/james-dean/


"I also wonder when a photographer takes a photograph of someone else's art
work; can he then call his photograph a work of art?"

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Fear not, Q. Marcel Deuchamp settled this point among artists for all time
by saying "If an artist calls his work 'art', then by definition it is a
work of art."


Of course the viewers may not think so but that is their problem, not his.


Larry Z
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