Oh, no we're back on the "art or not art" thing again

Scarpitti is a pathetic troll - killfile him and don't worry about his
assinine statements. By his standards the only Art there can be is the
famous Toro Fecco.

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On 1/26/2004 5:24 PM Colyn spake thus:

(Michael Scarpitti) wrote:

Photography is not 'art'.

Photography has long been considered an art form..

Not by me, certainly, and not by a certain minority, even here.

Just because it has entered the popular pantheon of Things Which Must Be
True,
just because Reader's Digest and Popular Photography and your
art/photography
teacher in high school think so, just because the great unwashed masses
think
it so doesn't make it so.

But I recognize this is a completely losing battle, so I'm not fighting it
anymore. I just do not accept photography as art. I accept photography as
photograhy; sui generis, to use the 75-cent term. Why not just accept it
on
its own terms?


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