Folks,
I'd like to bring to your attention an article by Jim Lewis on slate.com, which concerns the significance of Niepce's first photograph.
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To whet your appetite:
"Photography is different this way, too: Unlike, say, landscape painting or novel-writing, taking pictures is something that most people do as a matter of course. So it's unique among the fine arts in being split between a perfectly demotic practice and a rarified aesthetic one. (Granted, lots of people dance, but not en pointe.) But not all of us make art out of the pictures we take; most of us don't even try. Which raises an obvious question about Niépce's photo: Is it a good picture? A great picture?"...
May we all have a thoughtful and productive New Year.
I'd like to bring to your attention an article by Jim Lewis on slate.com, which concerns the significance of Niepce's first photograph.
Dead Link Removed
To whet your appetite:
"Photography is different this way, too: Unlike, say, landscape painting or novel-writing, taking pictures is something that most people do as a matter of course. So it's unique among the fine arts in being split between a perfectly demotic practice and a rarified aesthetic one. (Granted, lots of people dance, but not en pointe.) But not all of us make art out of the pictures we take; most of us don't even try. Which raises an obvious question about Niépce's photo: Is it a good picture? A great picture?"...
May we all have a thoughtful and productive New Year.
