Re: PUG deadline

[Andre Langevin]

Then they might be cliché.  My point is that a photo is not a cliché 
BECAUSE it is a photo of a flower or a cat.  To be a cliché, a photo 
of a flower or a cat has to be conventional or, if you want, the 
"repetition" of what is already seen all around.  If your photo of a 
flower is perceived as "original", as "unconventional", then it 
probably escapes the definition of "cliché".

I don't know who is Anne Geddes... She makes cat calendars?

Andre

Andre,

What about Anne Geddes?  Hers are pretty much all the same.

Bruce




Sunday, February 23, 2003, 5:19:17 PM, you wrote:

AL> Not at all.  A photo is not a cliché because it is of a flower of of
AL> a cat.  If we could speak about dog photos, I'd say open Elliot
AL> Erwitt's book on dogs to see what I mean.
AL> Andre

Aren't all flower pictures Cliché?

Cats too!

Just take a look on photo.net at the number of new posted images that
are either flowers or cats!
Bruce





Sunday, February 23, 2003, 3:41:53 PM, you wrote:

Andre Langevin wrote:
    My
   submission will have to jump over next month as it doesn't fit with
   next theme (Cliché).
No? Gosh, almost all my submissions fit that theme. <g>
Paul
AL> Well, in a way all photographs are "clichés" as the first sense of
AL> the french word is, simply, a picture.  But I know what you mean...
AL> Now, there are first degree cliché (unconscious) and second degree
AL> ones (conscious)...
AL> Andre


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