From: Jack Fulton (jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: 04/11/02-05:45:05 PM Z
Boy, what the heck school did you go to? Or are in now? Sounds very
un-altruistic, too PM, off base, biased and filled with twerps for teachers.
Leave 'em, sleave 'em, go on your own path and don't walk on asses-faults.
I don't normally tout personal work . . yet, my lovely book, "2 Saunters:
Summer & Winter, is primarily about trees. It contains 38 pages of color &
b/w w/text sprinkled on the edges. If interested you know what to do.
Jack Fulton
> From: shannon stoney <sstoney@pdq.net>
>
>> When I was in art school, it was "bad" to photograph nature. Only the
>> people photographing the city got the class and teachers excited. If you
>> brought in a landscape that didn't have any man-made items in it, the
>> reaction was, "Why are you doing this?" Your photograph must have a
>> purpose, and a picture of a tree doesn't have a purpose or a concept. The
>> answer "Because it is beautiful" was not valid, and I think that's
>> ridiculous. The theme "man vs. nature" also got real old.
>
>
> That happens at our school still. You'd think it would be real old by
> now. We landscape photographers get discouraged sometimes. But at
> Fotofest there were two really wonderful shows that encouraged me.
> One was a show of Russian pictorialism from the early 20th century,
> lots of it landscapes of the sort I like to do--the landscape around
> farms and small villages, with people in them--and there was a
> photogravure show by Geoff Winningham about the bayou that runs
> through Houston, a surprisingly wild and wooded place in the middle
> of the city.
>
> --shannon
>
>
> --
>
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