On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Chris Miller wrote:
But there are no cases where anyone (great painter or not) has
controlled a
line within a photograph so intensely that we might call it drawn.
What the hell does that mean? And of what consequence is it? But then,
there is no case where a horse has climbed a tree so intensely that we
might call it a cat.
Everything in a photograph is a shape, that is, light falls on the
focal plane simultaneously all over (okay, okay, panoramic cameras are
slightly different) so that the image is constructed of shapes;
whereas in a drawing, things are often delineated with an outline that
is used to surround a shape and define its edges. Most good artists
know that the lines--intense and flaccid as they might be--are in fact
shapes, and attentive artists regard the boundary between two areas as
a line equal to a drawn "line," if not more intensely so.
In computer vector graphics (not images), computer drawn lines are in
actuality very narrow shape areas, basically boxes with extreme
proportions of 500:1 or 2000:1 or something like that.
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