From: Lisa Reddig (lisa@julianrichards.com)
Date: 10/06/03-09:07:59 AM Z
I think I read all the neo-pict emails from yesterday. But forgive me if I
repeat something.
If anyone here reads the pinhole discussion group (which I belive many do),
you will know there are pinholer's who are obsessed with the technicalities
of the process. Making the exact pinhole size for the focal distance, using
the craziest most insane formulas. They treat pinholeing like some people
treat their Hasselblads. Those folks are not in it for it's low-techness or
it's pictorial qualities. They seem to be trying to get the sharpest image
possible out of a naturally blurry process, especially when every image is
scanned in and sharpened on photoshop.
And I must second Dave's response below, people have been manipulating
photographs and negatives since they were first invented. And photography
has never been objectively truthful. We were all taught this in college.
Lisa
On 10/5/03 11:28 PM, "Dave Rose" <cactuscowboy@bresnan.net> wrote:
> 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
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>> 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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