Sophisticated pinhead.
Grafist@aol.com
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 11:40:41 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Dave & Folks. Sophisticated pinhead.....I mean Pin hole
From those who have researched human physiology we learn that there is
a mechaniism whereby light reflected from objects passes thru' a lens called
the cornea, is impinged onto a thing called a retina which in turn passes the
data to a memory bank. Memories are created from these images and can be
processed into graphic form using skills developed with materials such as
sticks on sand, scratches on cave walls and rocks, paint and inks onto
various surfaces; these processes have, recently, become quite sophisticated
and categorized into different areas of human endeavour.
Would anyone care to say whether we could justifiably call this process
ALT photo? If you can, then you have freed yourself from the divisions which
separate photographers from painters. Why would Artists wish to sustain these
barriers, anyway, which have long since disappeared from the world of
advertising graphics practice? I think that, today, this question of
segregation between photography and other forms of graphic work can only be
regarded as old hat. Art historians must be given time to catch up and write
their tomes. This is yet another world of verbalization which tends to
control and stultify what we, as artists, instinctively feel we wish to
express with our processes.
There is room for everyone. Are we not camera systems, or what?
Just a thought.........Photo graphist. John Grocott (London UK)