From: Dave Rose (cactuscowboy@bresnan.net)
Date: 10/05/03-09:28:47 PM Z
Take a look at the work that Jerry Uelsmann was doing thirty years ago. It
could be argued that "nearly any damn thing" can be done without photoshop.
Dave in Wyoming
> My hastily expressed opinion at yesterday's meeting was that digital
> photo technology has removed the very idea of objective truth from
> photography altogether, since nearly any damn thing can be done in
> photoshop. So maybe we are being freed to do whatever we want, with
> whatever process we want, in the pursuit of a 2 dimensional
> representation of an idea, thought or feeling, in somewhat the same way
> that the invention of the camera freed painters from the strictures of
> objective realism. I realize that the neo-pictorial 'revival'
> antedates the rise of digital technology, but perhaps the early
> advocates were somehow foreseeing that the march of photographic
> technology was steering f/64 group type realism into the digital
> ditch. I think its great, because now we can concentrate on the image
> without being worried about whether Eddie Weston would approve.
>
> Clay
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