George Mann
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Can we have a serious discussion about starting a new photographic movement? Yes, no, maybe and why not?
Would you please elaborate on the concept of "movement"?
Is it an aesthetic 'frame' in which a certain 'style' is practiced?
Is it a kind of (time/historic related-) designation, like the 'Pictorialism', 'Modernism' or 'Surrealism'?
Is it a kind of 'label' to differentiate an actual style amongst other existing styles?
These are just a handful of questions, amongst many others, I have to consider before answering, but I know that they are tough to answer...
can one discuss/create a new movement before it starts to move? Or is it a matter of reconizing a new trend and/or possibility, and then moving that trend forward?
I think you have it backwards, the movements that start with an intention, a manifesto or something like that follow a purpose. Your feel we need a movement but are looking for a purpose? Why the need for a movement then?
Can we have a serious discussion about starting a new photographic movement? Yes, no, maybe and why not?
Can we have a serious discussion about starting a new photographic movement? Yes, no, maybe and why not?
Movement do not happen by planning and design. They happen. Organically.
Would you please elaborate on the concept of "movement"?
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Is it a kind of 'label' to differentiate an actual style amongst other existing styles?
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These are just a handful of questions, amongst many others, I have to consider before answering, but I know that they are tough to answer...
Usually in the artistic sphere, “movements” are identified and described by critics rather than by artists. Artists create, critics categorize.
Perhaps that should be the theme of the new movenent: repetitvism.Now, didn't we have this conversation just a few weeks ago?![]()
Perhaps that should be the theme of the new movenent: repetitvism.
I think there may even be filters to help support that theme!
Do they? Did the f64 'movement' just 'happen', or was it somewhat directed by a bunch of artists?
Which brings up the question, can one have a movement without something to move against or to move away from? Which is the case of the f64 movement in photography.
Exactly.......just keep photographing, preferably with film.
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