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Mechani-masturbation or art?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]Art history is for painting, not photographs.[/quote] I disagree - you're placing a pretty narrow scope on what constitutes art. History of art isn't just about looking at pretty pictures and understanding how they were made, it also studies the social and political circumstances in which styles developed and how and why artists worked and who for. [quote]Photography is representing things not only the way you see them, but also the way THEY ARE. Art is just the artist's perception.[/quote] I've been thinking a lot about this and I'm afraid I just don't see it so simply. The difference between painting and photography is that painting is slow and manual, photography is quick and mechnical. In both cases, the photographer has to choose what to show and what to leave out; both have to think about how best to achieve their desired effect - in painting, that comes down to materials, composision, colours, style etc. In photography, the artist has to do the same except his materials are significantly different. The [i]difference[/i] is that paintings are open to the whims of the painter's imagination and bodily movement, the photographer is limited to where he points his camera and how the light enters the camera. The camera actually gives the photographer an enormous amount of control over how he wishes to portray 'reality'. Lazlo Moholy-Nagy commented that photographs present to us a view of [i]objective reality[/i] (that is: reality untainted by the preconceptions of the human mind). What he actually meant was that photographs only give optically true images, not reality as it's perceived by human beings. So really you're splitting hairs about what you consider 'reality' to be. Loading...
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