You said:
"Not all photography during the last 150 years was all that imitative of
painting or "second-hand.""
I said 'much was ' ,not all of it.
You also said :
"There never was anything second-hand about fine photography. I don't know
where you got that idea."
Bob, take a closer look.
You said
"In the long run critics don't amount to a hill of beans. In the short run
they're a mixed bag of beans. Like peanuts, they're handy to have between
meals."
Critics have a very significnant effect on how the public reacts to photography.
What is your reaction to photographiuc reviews in the New York Times? And what
do you think students in colleges are taught?
You said:
:As for the role of modernism in dispensing with gingerbread, it was a
purging. Now we're sophisticated enough to appreciate gingerbread within
esthetic reason. Gargoyles don't frighten me. To this PM photographer, a
gargoyle is sometimes more to the point than other goyles. "
I hate to ask this Bob, but what is it that makes you think that you are a PM
photographer. Answer on one side of the post card only please.
Terry King