From: Christine (acolyta@napc.com)
Date: 03/08/02-10:34:59 AM Z
That may be your opinion, which I will respect. But I believe you are being
unjust in strictly categorizing things this way.
An artist is a person who makes things. A computer is a tool, just like a
camera, a paintbrush, a potter's wheel, a lithographer's plate. It is a means
to an end. It is entirely possible to be an artist that uses a computer. It
takes great talent to use photoshop well, I mean really well. Take a look at:
http://www.darrenwestlund.com/PersonalS.html
Or how about our own Dan?
Is he not an artist?
A photographer is a person that takes photographs. How he makes that
photograph should not be the value used to judge his merits as a photographer -
it should be the excellence of the photograph. And we all know that can be
subjective. I will be the first to admit there is plenty of bad
computer-generated photography out there. But there is plenty of good stuff,
too. I like to remain open-minded, and believe that good art can be made with
paint, clay, metal, film, video, fabrics, trash, dirt, paper, chemicals, sound,
smell, and yes, even computers.
Our list members may have questions arise that could never be answered on some
computer list, because our needs are so specific. I doubt there are many
others out there looking for the best way to make digital negatives for
Platinum/Palladium prints.
</soapbox>
Best Regards,
Christine
Alejandro Lopez de Haro wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Sorry, but there is a difference between a photographer an a computer
> technician who thinks is a photographer. And there is a really difference
> between an artist and a Photoshop user. Hence, I don't have to "get use to
> it", only technicians do.
>
> BTW, I have to agree with you that there so many bad magazines about digital
> photography.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alejandro López de Haro
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:24 AM
> Subject: PS Re: Pictorico (& Epson & Mac)
>
> >
> > > Alejandro Lopez de Haro wrote:
> >
> > > > That is nice that you differ, but there are many magazines who only
> talk
> > > > about Hubs, Ethernet, RAMS, Epson Printers, the latest MAC, etc. and
> that is
> > > > not photography. As you say: "I beg to differ."
> >
> >
> > FLASH ! That IS photography. In fact one of those magazines is called
> > Photo Electronic Imaging. Get used to it.
> >
> > Not to mention that most of those magazines are terrible... There's an
> > occasional article of interest, but you have to work through miles of
> > dreck to find one, including lot of cornball tricks du jour & puff pieces
> > for advertisers -- to get a very small yield of actual info. So by the
> > time you find what you need, if ever, months have passed.
> >
> > For that matter, now that Sandy's in the big time, we could say there are
> > magazines for pyrocat...
> >
> > J.
> >
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