A bit of wisdom.

[Vaughn]

How more plain could it be? But perhaps few people go barefoot these days. Good thing this is the philosophy section of Photrio and not the darkroom technique section. I will state it a couple more ways, once again...Look at the world through rose-colored glasses and everything look rosy. If all one has is a hammer, one sees everything as a nail.

It is also good travel advice. To fully experience a foreign place, do not surround oneself with the familiar ( such as countrymen, staying at tourist resorts, etc). Go barefoot (so to speak) and experience it fully. Get your feet wet.

 

[Don_ih]

Your last sentence above sums up the kind of nonsensical statement that seems to be associated with this kind of "philosophy"

It's not philosophy. It's an example of a pithy statement. It's not meaningless - but it has more in common with a parable than with philosophy. It's designed to disorient your thinking to make you assess something in a new light.

 

[snusmumriken]

Maybe I can send my negatives to you after I'm gone. My family doesn't want them.

According to Chris Chapman, he and James Ravilious compared notes about how no-one wanted their photographs. They came up with the idea of ‘disappearing’ for a while to see whether their work acquired posthumous value. Thankfully, they didn’t carry this out.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

According to Chris Chapman, he and James Ravilious compared notes about how no-one wanted their photographs. They came up with the idea of ‘disappearing’ for a while to see whether their work acquired posthumous value. Thankfully, they didn’t carry this out.

What if I tried this and found out no one even knew I was gone?

 

[snusmumriken]

What if I tried this and found out no one even knew I was gone?

That’s like Irish Roulette. Each person drinks a bottle of whisky, then one person leaves the room and the others try to guess who it was.

 

[Rayt]

I don’t know what represents perfection. When I go to an art museum not just modern art which baffles me, or look through a monograph from a noted photographer I personally only like some of it and if I had shot the rest I wouldn’t have printed it. I just photograph and keep what I think is good. I do street photography and people in general. Honestly I have no idea. A lot of the stuff I look at because other people say they are great and I just scratch my head.

 

[Don_ih]

A lot of the stuff I look at because other people say they are great and I just scratch my head.

I think that's a fairly universal experience. Different people look for different things in photos, paintings, music, etc. It neither validates nor invalidates any of the things in question. It also doesn't make you any more or less right or wrong than the next guy.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Vaughn]

According to Chris Chapman, he and James Ravilious compared notes about how no-one wanted their photographs. They came up with the idea of ‘disappearing’ for a while to see whether their work acquired posthumous value. Thankfully, they didn’t carry this out.

Reminds me of a 1965 comedy movie, The Art of Love with Dick Van Dyke.

I think I have mentioned elsewhere, but art history is filled with the survivors -- the successes, with all the copycats, pretenders, want-to-bes, amateurs, hobbiests, and so forth filtered out by time...unlike the unfiltered world around us now...this can make judging the present by the past a bit problematic, IMO. Too bad we won't be around long enough to see the results of the art-filtering of this first quarter of the 21st Century. Instead, we will be the filtered!