Digital BW, The Print

Loris Medici wrote:

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>To me, making a statements like "unaltered camera image" or "unaltered
>photograph" and such is completely dumb (sorry, but there's not another
>word that I can describe it better - please do not take it as a personal
>insult). I would never buy a print from someone making such a statement
>- because it would indicate me that the photographer is more interested
>in the technique and formalism than communicating his/her feelings,
>worries, thoughts, message in a personal/special way. 
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Agreed 100%

To go a bit further: not only that Loris but I would argue that the 
artist is actually involved in a self-deception of a sort..

As we would probably both agree, the artist's view will intrude no 
matter what.. Pure objectivity is impossible..  Art is about conveying 
emotion and feeling, not a staid emotionless image.  It's a bit like 
memory... There is no such thing as an objective human memory...  The 
fact is that our own perspective and filtering goes on unconsciously 
however hard we try to divorce it.. No matter what structural or 
rule-based methodologies we attempt to impose on ourselves..  It becomes 
tautological, we unconsciously influence the choice of rules or logical 
constructs, and that choice ab initio alters the view we perceive from 
what would be objective reality..  etc..  "Objective reality" as the 
metaphysicists understood, is never 100% possible for a human mind.. 
 Reality and art are inherently subjective, both in their creation and 
in their experiencing..

This is not even a new philosophical concept.. Plato differentiated 
between an object's actual properties and our perception of those 
properties. He differentiated between "essence" and "manifestations." 
 The metaphysicists differentiated between the rational, emotional, and 
noumenal realms..  The noumenal realm  was inherently unknowable by any 
other than the object itself.  Our perceptions were part of the rational 
realm, but those differed from the objective reality of the noumenal 
realm..  They were "our reality" and inherently influenced and colored 
by the emotional realm."

Sorry for the digression, but this discussion is old hat in 
philosophical and political science circles.. In those circles and in 
higher physics (the Heisenberg uncertainty principle) we recognize that 
objective reality is itself  an unstable concept..  All is mediated 
whether by  our emotions and experiences or by the very act of viewing...
Keith

 

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