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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	Alright then :). [quote]As for the "see what my camera can do" argument, well, I think that's just silly. Even the most basic cameras need some tweaking with the aperture and shutter to acheive certain effects. I don't think any of the pictures shared in these POW challenges have been examples of that. Even with the best professional equipment you still have to frame the photo, consider the light source, and come up with the best settings to acheive the photo you're picturing in your head. [/quote] Then you just reiterated my point. As someone above said, photography records reality. I don't agree. Let me quite Moholy-Nagy: [quote]The secret of their [cameras?] effect is that the photographic equipment reproduced a purely optical picture and thus shows optically true images, distortions, foreshortenings and so on whereas our eyes take up what is seen and, with the assistance of our intellectual experience, make associative connections and round it out formally and spatially into some ordinary image. Thus in photography, we have the most reliable aid to achieving the first stages of objective seeing. The individual viewer will be forced to see the optical truth, which can be understood from within itself, before even beginning to come to some possible subjective attitude?[/quote] Loading...
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