Re: outsider art

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From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 01/07/03-05:13:15 PM Z


Disfarmer cannot be an "outsider" photographer because he was working,
however brilliantly, in a given tradition: portrait studio.

Nor does "common folk" define outsider art, because most common folk,
Sunday painters, are doing conventional modes -- however amateurishly.

j.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Shannon Stoney wrote:

> Can photographers be Outsider ARtists or folk artists? It would seem
> strange to single out self-taught photographers since almost all
> photographers are self-taught. It seems to me that photography may be the
> Mother of All Folk Arts, since it is the one practised the most by the
> common folk.
>
> --shannon
>


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