But of course, as a matter of course, if I had a 'blad, I'd name him Ingmar.
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Sandwiches, anyone?
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Why, yes, thank you. But only if your offering those little triangular ones with the crusts removed!
Please feel free to add to the list. I'll get things started:
- Referring to lenses as glass.
- Referring to film developing as souping.
- Photography means nothing it is life that interests me, or something like that. With apologies to HCB, far and away my favorite photographer.
- The merits of shooting RAW v. JPEG. Digital, I know, but what is more boring than listening to such drivel?
- The merits of todays FB v. RC papers. Seriously folks, does anyone actually think an RC print wont archive as well, all else being equal?
- Closet-gearheads who profess that the equipment really doesnt matter.
- On Photography, by Susan Sontag.
- No-name photogs who think anyone would possibly want to dish out hundreds or thousands of dollars their limited edition prints. Check any issue of B&W for a reference.
- The idea that photographs must "say something". PLEASE. Most of the photographs I love most say nothing to me. I just like looking at them.
Earl Gray? At this time of day? What kind of time zone are you in?
It's 4 o'clock, perfect timing for afternoon tea. I'll ring for a footman to bring us a tray of scones and clotted cream.
Nah. Bruce. Avoids confusion.
As an aside here, why do people name cameras/motorcycles/cars etc? Always struck me as a bizarre custom.
I find it hard to refer to myself as an artist, I find the term pretentious, even though others would refer to someone who does what I do as an artist. When asked what I do, i go through an uncomfortable explanation in order not to use the word artist.
Perhaps Holga users are photography reverse-snobs?![]()
If they do ask, do you answer "Writer," "Photographer," "Writer about photography," or "Photographer who writes"?I often just say 'freelance'. Surprisingly few people ask, 'Freelance what?'
If they do ask, do you answer "Writer," "Photographer," "Writer about photography," or "Photographer who writes"?![]()
I don't understand the logic of the dichotomy. I call myself an artist, because I am an artist; I create art objects. There's no snobbery or value judgment involved; it's not a matter of considering my work "art'" because I think it's more artistic than anyone else's work. it simply is art, just as a painting is art or an etching is art. It is art by virtue of fitting in the category of art objects and by virtue of being sold in art galleries.
Maybe it seems different to me, because I also paint besides photographing. It doesn't make sense to me to call myself an artist when I'm painting and to shun the title when I'm making photographs, which since I work in gum bichromate, are also art objects which use paint and paper as materials. They don't seem that different to me; the fact that one is printed from a negative doesn't make it seem less "art" to me than the other. I am simply an artist, working sometimes in one medium and sometimes in another.
Katharine
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