Hi! Doug Franklin wrote: > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> I believe the meaning of the pic would >> change remarkably for many people in each situation, yet it's the same, >> simple pic - a fence painted to resemble the flag. > > It's the thing that annoys me most about so many discussions of "art" > and "is this art" or "is that art". What's so often missing in those > discussions is the role of the viewer, reader, listener, or whatever. > It's not art just because the person who created says it's art ... or is it?
Doug, Shel, and others, this is fascinating discussion here. When I looked at the picture I did not feel any particular emotion except that here is yet another technically excellent photo from Shel, and why would he shot from tripod at 1/800 sec shutter speed. However, I myself just a few days ago conceived a project where I would try to show the other side of happy life in Israel mostly in a sense of what I would call post-Zionism. This of course is totally different matter, but it would seem to me fitting to mention this in a context of this conversation. Shel, you definitely were very successful this time. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
