Check the byline: it's just Jonathan Jones finger painting in his mashed potatoes again.
Two word substitutions work here: "The truth is that words like creativity, individuality, talent and originality don’t readily apply when you have a planet of people all writing articles." For a good rebuttal of JJ's "photography ain't art" stance, see: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/11/photography-is-art-sean-ohagan-jonathan-jones On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > Here is an article in The Guardian: > http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/feb/03/instagram-generation-amateur-photographers-art-plagiarism > > While the article raises some interesting questions, I disagree with some of > the statements the author makes. E.g. he suggests that you cannot "take > really great pictures" on a cruise. And that's because more than one person > can take similar pictures there. > That's total nonsense! > He also implies that ones there is a view, different photographers are bound > to take similar photo (unlike artists, who are bound to paint different > paintings). > > If I were to translate that to a different setting: people will not get > "really great pictures" at GFM, because they all see the same wonderfully > looking views. > > I wonder what other PDMLers think about this... > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.