Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pasajack 
<pasajack@y...>" <pasajack@y...> wrote:
> if you can't understand what bob dylan is saying, you can never be a 
> good photographer. And it is not just a matter of taste-it goes 
> deeper...
> Pasajack

I can understand perfectly what he is saying. It's when he starts 
singing I have a hard time....

C'mon now, is this trolling or what? I could just as easily say that 
unless you've seen all Shakespeare's plays you don't understand human 
nature, therefore can't be an artist. Or read Tolstey's "War and 
Peace", or Dostoyevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (sorry, I'm half 
Russian<g>), James Joyce, or Kafka...or do you prefer to say there are 
no writers before Ginsberg and Kesey? Actually, if you want scathing 
social commentary the master was Jonathan Swift before Disney got 
ahold of him. Still relevent today. Dylan once confessed that he was 
not satisfied with a book of poetry he had published, and his talents 
did not lie in that venue (that from memory, check me out on it).

I heard of a blind photographer. I guess he was famous, at least some 
time back. He had a little vision in the center of his field, but it 
was all blurry. He would just see a blur of light and take a picture 
of it. I guess he had some help later in the darkroom screening them 
out.

Someone else, (who is it now) took pictures with old discarded cheap 
$5 cameras. Light leaks and flares would be a part of the final image.

Then there's St. Ansel lugging his  ole f64 8 x 10 around mountains, 
cooking up formulations in the darkroom, getting it all precise.

Jim H.