From: William Marsh (redcloud54@earthlink.net)
Date: 04/11/02-10:18:20 PM Z
shannon stoney wrote:
>
> >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
>
> --
Happened to me in grad school. Actually kept me out of Maryland College
of Art in Baltimore. They wouldn't even consider me because I was doing
mostly landscapes at the time.
Regards,
Bill
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