>>> dbaird@umflint.edu 03/17/05 11:22 AM >>>
>>While studying and researching the origins of picture-making, I've
come to realize we photographers have gotten this concept all wrong.
We don't make photographs, we make pictures. The photograph is a
medium, the camera a tool, and the print a representation or
reproduction.<<
Darryl,
I would agree for the most part.
Interestingly, I have a kitschy VHS tape narrated by Vincent Price
(1960s?) discussing how William Mortensen was a "maker of pictures"
rather than mere photographs, and who as such was ostracized by the then
currently in-vogue photographic camp and pretty much left out of the
medium's history until the recent revival.
I would like us all to be "Artists."
Joe
Received on Thu Mar 17 11:19:34 2005
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