Digital BW, The Print

>Photographers are not artist. They're photographers.<

THAT is a stupid comment

>I don't like when someone refers to me as an artist. I've never <
>wanted to be one.

Some are, some aren't

>I've always wanted to be a photographer. That's what I am and that's <
>what I want to be known as.

Stanley Kubrick one of the greatest filmmakers of our time used to be a
fashion photographer . . . to many, a facetious career at best, . . . . as a
filmmaker he shone above most. Peter Greenaway, I won't list his films,  . .
. look up the titles, used to be a painter . . . it is blatantly obvious
with his meticulously crafted direction (albeit somewhat hard to understand
sometimes) . . . visual "metiers" can and are sometimes interchangeable or
able to grow into another . . . photographers can be artists

. . . as long as they don"t make it a "title" issue as opposed to doing what
they are supposed to be doing, making unique or perceptive images.

>My reply to Clayton regarding this matter was meant as a joke. No one <
>should have  taken it seriously.

Paul Aparycki