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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (864)	8/4/2012 9:04:15 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) of 3790

Interesting. When photography was developed in the 1800s it questioned the value of realistic painting, leading to impressionism and every other ism since, and even the photo realist painters like Ralph Goeings. en.wikipedia.org "In 1963 I wanted to start painting again but I decided I wasn't going to do abstract pictures. It occurred to me that I should go as far to the opposite as I could. ... It occurred to me that projecting and tracing the photograph instead of copying it freehand would be even more shocking. To copy a photograph literally was considered a bad thing to do. It went against all of my art school training... some people were upset by what I was doing and said 'it's not art, it can't possibly be art'. That gave me encouragement in a perverse way, because I was delighted to be doing something that was really upsetting people... I was having a hell of a lot of fun..." The photo realists were kind of jokers turning back the criticism of anti-modernists and the objections of the abstractionists. Now computers, software and ultra sensitive multi-image cameras are challenging the validity of photography. It will be interesting to see how they react. I mentioned before to Michal that I didn't take my camera with me into Bryce Canyon figuring that in any year millions of photos are taken in Bryce. Of course I regretted it as I found myself in a 200 ft deep slot canyon in the daytime, looked up to see a full moon exactly in the center between the two canyon walls. Maybe soon we'll just have a camera implanted in our foreheads so we don't miss anything like I did.

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