songs are a subset of all music and songs have words. Not all music has words and needs titles if thats what your trying to imply. Some of the greatest instrumentals of all time do have titles, but do they mean anything? i.e. Green Onions? Ditto for photography, a lot of them dont need titles and a lot of the titles are not relevant to appreciation of the art. Untitled photos are not a problem for me whatsoever. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Øsleby Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:13 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Let's talk about titles What do you think about Dylan #47 compared to Dylan #165? Personally I prefer ballads without words. The words seem to interfere with my freedom to interpret the music as I like. This may seem just stupid jokes. But that's not my intention. I'm trying to make the point that some music goes best without words, and some don't. And to me, it's the same with photography. This may seem obvious, but parts of this debate seem to ignore this, or tend to say that photo without titles are better photography. I tend to disagree. In fact I find it a rather pompous attitude. Just in case: I don't think that you John has this attitude; you simply gave me the perfect opportunity to say this ;-) Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: 18. februar 2007 22:41 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Let's talk about titles Photos can be done like music, most of the major classical composers just used numbers, like Symphony #5 or Concerto #2. Some, but not most, have so-called "nicknames" like Beethovens 6th, which is known as the "Pastoral" symphony, but this is usually not the case, and the artwork is still apreciated just as much. jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Franklin Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:12 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Let's talk about titles Boris Liberman wrote: > I've started catching myself more and more often ignoring the title of > the photograph all together. I would look at the photo, get my own > opinion about it, and only then look at the title. Not just photos, but pretty much all visual art ... except movies ... it's hard to see a movie without knowing the title beforehand. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
