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I apologies for what I posted yesterday. I let my feelings get the better of me and should have been more thoughtful. I have asked for my post to be deleted.
However, I would like to address two parts of your reply (in a reasonable fashion)
largely a whore to commerce
When I read this I can't help but feel that you're just lumping commercial photography, artistic photography and indeed any other kind of photography into the same bin. I'm aware that dealing with such abstracts as intent is at best complicated but there is validity and to state that photography (I assume you meant as a whole) is completely about the contrived image really short falls a hell of a lot of work.
still it is very restrictive medium
I don't really understand how you view photography as a restrictive medium. Taking into consideration the immense number of options, variables and choices open to a photographer within the whole process (film creation, exposure, development, printing, etc) the latitude and liberties of the final image are incredibly broad. Perhaps you could quantify your statement a little further.
On the subject of "talentless dandies who can't paint". Perhaps you might like to think of the work of such people as Jan Saudek, Bessoin and especially Jennifer Parker and many others with similar practices.
I think that this kind of reference is as good as saying that comic script writers are talentless hacks who can't draw. |
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