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Subject: Re: [OM] The Great Bokeh Debate [was] olympus-digest V2 #3112
From: John Hudson <jahudson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:29:58 -0800
"John A. Lind" wrote:
> 
> At 18:57 2/4/02, Tris Schuler wrote:
> 
> >I took my college class with a Kodak Instamatic. The professor took one
> >look at that equipment and pronounced in no uncertain terms I would
> >receive no higher grade than a C, and this assumed I would do everything
> >else perfectly. Sure enough, he gave me a C at the end, which was, by the
> >way, the lowest grade I ever got in college. My final photograph was
> >better than okay, though, and this teacher admitted as much--albeit
> >grudgingly. <g>
> 
> There's no explaining judgement and critiques in the Fine Arts, graphic or
> performing.  If under a teacher or professor, or your the work is being
> juried you're at the complete mercy of the individual(s) who pass
> judgement.  At times it can be blatant egotistical, self-serving
> snobbery.  Learned many, many years ago in performing arts not to take any
> of it personally.  Unfortunately in your case it also affected a GPA.  Does
> sound as if you won a minor moral victory even if it wasn't enough to
> change the grade.

Didn't Texan Van Cliburn win the first Tchaikovsky piano competition in
1958 when soviet pianist S Richter cast ten times his voting allotment
in his favour and was then banned from jurying any other competition.
Much depends on the luck of someone liking your style!

jh

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