Re: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...

2015-02-05 Thread John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M On 2/5/2015 1:08 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: It's The Guardian what do you expect. Hack writing, thought admittedly better hack writing that the average US paper. On 2/4/2015 11:25 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Here is an article in The Guardian: http://www.

Re: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...

2015-02-05 Thread P.J. Alling
Sturgeon was a wise man, who produced a number of Gem like stories, and quite a bit of crap himself, which he would probably readily admit. After all, he was paid per word, and a man's got to eat. On 2/4/2015 3:44 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Ken Waller wrote: In a world of pretentious and compl

Re: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...

2015-02-05 Thread P.J. Alling
It's The Guardian what do you expect. Hack writing, thought admittedly better hack writing that the average US paper. 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-amateu

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2015-02-04 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 01:44:02PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > Check the byline: it's just Jonathan Jones finger painting in his > mashed potatoes again. Yep - Jonathan Jones is paid to stir up controversy, not to serve information. 45 years ago I used to trust the Guardian. Not today, though.

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2015-02-04 Thread Ken Waller
He's full of stinky brown stuff. MARK ! haven't seen many of these lately Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "John" Subject: Re: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ... On 2/4/2015 11:25 AM,

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2015-02-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Ken Waller wrote: >>In a world of pretentious and complacent amateur snapping, we are drowning >>those moments of truth in an >ocean of the banal. > >Agreed! Well duh! Sturgeon's Law ("90% of everything is crap"). Why should it not apply to photography? -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multime

Re: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...

2015-02-04 Thread John
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 statem

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2015-02-04 Thread Bruce Walker
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 rebut

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2015-02-04 Thread steve harley
On 2015-02-04 9:25 , Igor PDML-StR wrote: 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 ther

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2015-02-04 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message ----- From: "Igor PDML-StR" Subject: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ... Here is an article in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/feb/0

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2015-02-04 Thread Darren Addy
The writer of the article shows his own biases in the following statement: "Photography can easily degenerate into a pseudo-art, with millions of people all taking pictures of the same things and all thinking we are special. This amateur delusion of photographic art is everywhere today – from Ins

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2015-02-04 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Malcolm, While starting reading this sentence below, I first thought it would be something like: "You could put two photographers in an empty garden shed, and they would come back with three different images" ... each! ;-) Cheers! Igor Malcolm Smith Wed, 04 Feb 2015 08:40:32 -0800 wrote

RE: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...

2015-02-04 Thread Malcolm Smith
Igor wrote: > Here is an article in The Guardian: > http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/feb/03/i > nstagram-generation-amateur-photographers-art-plagiarism > > While the article raises some interesting questions, I disagree with > some of the statements the author make

Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...

2015-02-04 Thread Igor PDML-StR
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