Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jason-

As I have tried to describe in other posts, for me the "continuum" is
between "more or less "representational" at the same time as "more or less
"abstract"- both things, simultaneously.  In this sense, photography as Art
(as opposed to snap-shot) is really no more nor less "representational" or
"abstract" than painting.

Having said that, I would add that the problem (for me) is precisely the
relative ease with which photography can "pretend" to be reality- it is a
seductive trap which can lead us to works that are more a snap-shot than a
"work of art."

Bill Morse
PhotoProspect
Cambridge, MA 02139


on 9/17/02 1:24 PM, Jason DeFontes wrote:

> I think there is more than one valid usage of the word abstraction
> that's getting mixed up here.
> 
> The first, the one that I believe Austin is using, is the idea that
> there's a continuum from representation<<-->>abstraction. In this sense,
> a photograph surely lies near the representational end of the spectrum.