Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cxsea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!cxsea!doc From: doc@cxsea.UUCP (Documentation ) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Art vs. Technique Message-ID: <282@cxsea.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 12:42:18 EDT Article-I.D.: cxsea.282 Posted: Wed Aug 14 12:42:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:35:32 EDT References: <54600009@trsvax> <4088@alice.UUCP> <1418@peora.UUCP> <286@harvard.ARPA> <1471@peora.UUCP> Organization: Computer X Inc., Seattle, Washington. Lines: 22 > > However, I am not Adams, and I really do believe in the ideas I expressed > last week, mentioned in the posting above. Working almost exclusively now > with color materials has led me more and more to believe in the merits of > exacting realism. I do have several negatives which I am often tempted to > manipulate in these ways; yet, when I look at the unmanipulated print, > compared with any manipulated image, I almost always come to the > conclusion that the unmanipulated print is best. This has indeed led to > some strange images, which, to interpret them as I do, requires you to > study them until you are truly in the mood of the picture. I look at some > of them at other times and wonder why I made a print like that. On the > other hand, I have only a handful that I like; only one that I feel > captures any essence of the spirit of the particular school of Realism in > which I spent my formative years. That's all well and good, if you're into Realism. But isn't it time for photography (especially color) to explore other things, like impressionism? I thought the whole idea was to achieve personal satisfaction, not necessarily just Realism. Unto each, his own.