On 23/8/04, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: >Photography is pointing a camera and pushing the >shutter release (or otherwise exposing the film). >Everything after that is processing. The two need not >meet.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. (Trying to ponder after a nice dinner of home-made kalamari marinieres chased down with Provence rose....) I would dispute that. I think photography is about creating an image from initial conception through to final production of said image for self and/or others to see. If you sub-contract out the production stage, then fine, why not. One could also sub-contract out the initial conception stage, or (for those of us who through some misfortune or another lack the requisite appendage) even the pressing of the shutter. If all you did was just go around holding up the camera and pressing the shutter, then you would be a camera operator. But surely, Frank me-boy, you also view the prints as they are returned to you, select the goodies, trash the junk, pick a few to print again, bigger, maybe frame a few? That is surely 'photography'? Good thread this, jump on. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
