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On Apr 16, 1:42*pm, Mxsmanic <mxsma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> bugbear writes:
> > This easily predates digital. "Artists" have been deliverately
> > making images that don't fully exploit available technology,
> > or (indeed) delibererately degrade it it, for decades.
>
> But these are ordinary snapshots, not "art."

Are't these people trying to capture the look of the past, I thought
that was the/their idea.


> You'd think that people would
> want the best possible quality for posterity. Once you've added defects, you
> can't necessarily remove them.

Again it depends why the photo's were taken of the inteneded use.

>
> > One might cite Man Ray's solarisation - "Art or Mistake"?
>
> Mistake passed off as art.
>
> Like Mark Twain said, the best thing about being an artist is that nobodycan
> prove you're not.

maybe the same goes for photograp[hers

In article
<c234e70a-120a-47e6-a403->,
Whisky-dave <> wrote:

> > Like Mark Twain said, the best thing about being an artist is that nobody
> > can
> > prove you're not.
>
> maybe the same goes for photograp[hers

A photographer is a person with a camera. A "pro" photographer is
someone with a camera who knows how to blow without spitting.

Fred

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:19:15 -0400, Fred McKenzie <>
wrote:

>In article
><c234e70a-120a-47e6-a403->,
> Whisky-dave <> wrote:
>
>> > Like Mark Twain said, the best thing about being an artist is that nobody
>> > can
>> > prove you're not.
>>
>> maybe the same goes for photograp[hers
>
>A photographer is a person with a camera. A "pro" photographer is
>someone with a camera who knows how to blow without spitting.

Ouch. So many jokes there.