RE: Actual photograph

Artists, yes! I'm reaching for my beret as we 'speak.'

-Darryl

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Smigiel [mailto:jsmigiel@kvcc.edu]
Sent: Thu 3/17/2005 12:22 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Actual photograph
 
>>> 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