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It's all personal
Posted By: Michael McGowan (24.93.246.222)
In Response To: Ok, I agree on some points...
Location: Ohio
Date: Sunday, 7 March 2004, at 7:44 p.m.
(Henry Butz)
Thanks for that bit of philosophy, Henry.
When I started doing photos on the Web, I had the idea that people were ultimately going to want old-fashioned silver prints at some point. Maybe in your area, they do. But here, and in much of the world, that's just a quaint little sliver of the art market.Whatever. In the places I've been working, the Ansel Adams/Edward Weston/Robert Mapplethorpe triumverate pretty much defined what is photographic art.
Walking through this museum we're blessed with in Youngstown, I get to see paintings from 400 years ago that look like photographs, photographs that look like they're from the inside of somebody's skull, sculpture so real you get ready to ask the guard for directions and holograms I can't really see because I only have one good eye.
They're all fascinating. They're all kinds of media, all sorts of styles. What they have in common is the ability to move people.
One thing I cannot show you unless you come to visit in April is the impact of a large-scale print. You may not like my photos, which is just fine, but you'd have to be struck by the transparency of the medium. (Heck, I'm not as fond of some of their choices, but it's a teaching show as well as an art show.)
What you see on the computer screen of these images is just a shallow representation of what happens when they're put on real photographic paper.
Besides, the next generation of cameras is already in the works, which will give us about another two stops of information, which should really stretch our imaginations as we try to squeeze it all down to a flat piece of paper.
I'm energized by the possibilities. You're energized by the flip side of those possibilities.
Bottom line: There's a lot of stuff out there worth being excited about. A couple of years ago, I wasn't sure we'd get to this point. But some idiots with their sensors and computers did believe. We'll see how well they did over the next five to ten years.
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