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Re: Censorship issues
>>I begin my lectures on photographic prints as objects of
>>art by holding up a photo of a car and asking, "What is this?" The
answer
>>is always a chorus of "a car". When I point out that it is a
PHOTOGRAPH of
>>a car they scream, "semantics". I reply that they have skipped the
object
>>of art completely and gone directly to the subject...because the photo
has
>>been accepted by our society as a surrogate reality.
I think it IS semantics. Sure, it is a photograph, but what do you expect
the majority of people to say? I would say it is a car as would 99
percent of the people who look at the image.
Bob