On 2/4/2015 11:25 AM, Igor PDML-StR 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
It's not plagiarism, unintentional or otherwise, if they didn't look at each other's photos before capturing their own. The rest of it seems to be the perennial whine that photography cannot be art. Yes it can, but ... The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes While the dealers they get together And they decide who gets the breaks And who's going to be in the gallery [1] He's full of stinky brown stuff. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. [1] Dire Straits "In the Gallery" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-v6JeolLzw -- 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.
