Perhaps when seen standalone as photographs, these two images are not "Art" but exquisite documentarian representations of fungi in nature …
But they could be embued with the notion of Art by incorporating them into a display of photographs which allegorizes a perception of them … in their sensual form and color … with relation to something else acknowledged as a human perception of their beauty in contrast or complement to other human experience. Photography and photographs always live on this border between Documentation and Art, in my opinion. I often think about it as I look through my or others' photographic works with the terms "literal" or "abstract" describing their qualities. Literal photographs tend to be documentation—recordings—in that lexicon; abstract photographs tend to be more focused as Art in intent, more a search for caricature or archetype in a sense. But it's a subjective game, a matter of perception and the language, combined, that we use to describe what we're doing, what we've done. In the end, what looks 'well done' to a particular set of eyes *is* well done, when it comes to a photograph. And these two photographs are, to my eye, very well done, Henk! :) G — "No matter where you go, there you are." > On Jan 22, 2023, at 12:45 AM, Henk Terhell <henk.terh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ralf, for me the world of fungi is strange enough in itself. I have no > need for additional artistic modification other than getting sharp pictures > and a fair reproduction of colors. However I do appreciate such weird > fantasy even if it is generated with the help of AI. > To illustrate, here are two recent (non AI) pictures of peculiar fungi: > https://flic.kr/p/2oaDxzD > https://flic.kr/p/2obWN7d > > Henk > > Op za 21 jan. 2023 om 23:47 schreef Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de>: > >> Am 21.01.23 um 22:55 schrieb Henk Terhell: >>> Thanks Ralph, very funny pictures. I guess this is clever photoshop work, >>> perhaps even with the assistance of a new AI picture generator. >>> More of such fantasy work will be our future. >> >> Really? The idea of living in a world where you have to keep wondering >> if art is genuine or AI generated gives me the creeps. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
