Bob Carnie
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I understood Timothy Leary a bit better if that counts.but did you get "vision" ?
I understood Timothy Leary a bit better if that counts.but did you get "vision" ?
O.k I seem to take some good photos of things/places/people I like (generally) and really enjoy doing it and looking at the results but as soon as I try and get artie with my photos they end up trash. Do you think much like other art you have to have an artistic bent even before you start to make good artistic photos. For me capturing a memory is the most important bit but I do like looking at artistic photos much like I like looking at paintings . Do you consider yourself an artist or a capturer of memories/history.
Same here. My attempts at being artsy tend to not be great. On the other hand, unless an artsy photo is truly exceptional it won't have staying power, i.e. in a hundred years nobody will care. On the other hand, captured memories and histories might be treasured by the family for more than a century. I am in the process of scanning some of the photos and negatives made by my wife's grandfather. Some of them are almost a century old.
Your question Always Begs the eternal question.....What is (the definition of) Art.?O.k I seem to take some good photos of things/places/people I like (generally) and really enjoy doing it and looking at the results but as soon as I try and get artie with my photos they end up trash. Do you think much like other art you have to have an artistic bent even before you start to make good artistic photos. For me capturing a memory is the most important bit but I do like looking at artistic photos much like I like looking at paintings . Do you consider yourself an artist or a capturer of memories/history.
If, as you say, you make good (hopefully interesting) photos of things/places/people, you may, already, be making "art" but neither you nor anyone else will realize it until possibly after you are gone. If you are lucky, even before. The Louisiana photographer, Fonville Wynan, (deceased) once said: " I took pictures (of Louisiana scenes, people, places) as a teenager because I thought it was fun and of things, people and places that interested me and now people tell me it is art". I have some of his books and, to me, many of his photographs ARE "art". I also don't believe that A. Adams, and Weston did their early photography because they believed they were shooting "art". All of that came later. So take heart,. Take photographs of subjects that appeal to you on the deepest level and most probably the question of whether it is art will take care of itself............Regards!O.k I seem to take some good photos of things/places/people I like (generally) and really enjoy doing it and looking at the results but as soon as I try and get artie with my photos they end up trash. Do you think much like other art you have to have an artistic bent even before you start to make good artistic photos. For me capturing a memory is the most important bit but I do like looking at artistic photos much like I like looking at paintings . Do you consider yourself an artist or a capturer of memories/history.
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