I like to think of photography as painting with light. I don't paint very
well with other media either. /jim
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [OM] (OT?) art and photography
At 09:24 AM 9/17/03, AG Schnozz wrote:
>Obviously, photography (and painting) is all about "light". Or
>is it? Light is the means of making a photograph and painting
>happen--both in the creation and in the viewing. For this
>aspect, light is used as a means of energy transfer. Light is
>the engine behind our entire visual process. Is "light" the
>"means to an end" or is it the "end" itself?
This is a matter of "frame of reference." I view light as the "end in
itself." It's the only thing that is recorded. The "subjects" are "light
modifiers" that reflect, diffract, refract and/or emit light. This is a
"light-centric" Weltansicht. There is, of course, a "subject-centric" one
in which the light is the "subject modifier." The frame of reference
choice is arbitrary. The important point is the two are tightly
inter-related and the reference frame arbitrarily chosen should be one that
works best for thinking about the photograph to be made . . . before making
it. I think first about the light source(s) and then about how best to
modify it with the subject material to create the photograph.
-- John
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