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November 7, 2002
This is not a photograph
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
-Walker Evans
I’m tired of having the argument about whether or not photography is an art or craft or what. I just can’t be bothered. I’m old and I don’t care about changing people’s minds anymore. It’s just what I do, and rather than argue about it, I’m just going to continue doing it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to go remove my film from its bath.
Posted by pogo at November 7, 2002 1:59 PM
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If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether. Its true duty is to be the servant of the sciences and arts - but the very humble servant, like printing or shorthand, which have neither created nor supplemented literature.
Let it rescue from oblivion those tumbling ruins, those books, prints and manuscripts which time is devouring, precious things whose form is dissolving and which demand a place in the archives of our memory - it will be thanked and applauded.
But if it is allowed to encroach upon the domain of the imaginary, upon anything whose value depends solely upon the addition of something of a man’s soul, then it will be so much the worse for us.
Posted by: charles baudelaire on November 7, 2002 10:49 PM
don’t listen to him. he’s a jerk.
Posted by: jacob on November 7, 2002 10:50 PM
dear chuck,
park it up your arse.
sincerely,
tamara l. spacecat
Posted by: pogo on November 8, 2002 9:20 AM