On 1/20/2012 15:52, Bob W wrote:
I'd say that it's right up there with cat photos.
Black& white cats painted ginger, perhaps.
ohoh, you've been looking at graphic arts gallery.
http://annsan.smugmug.com/Graphic-Design/Anns-design-work/3346046_7HfWvF/1/1158685402_HS4MX/Medium
But it is not only from a photo of mine but it's my kitty cat...
And I DID do it just for the money -- ain't got much yet but it
has sold as a mug and a magnet so far - that I can remember.
larry wrote:
Seriously a lot of the same arguments against coloring photos could be
made against photos as art, rather than painting.
Did Dylan get upset when the Byrds or Hendrix did better versions of
his songs?
Bob W replied
This is a false analogy because songs are about performance, whereas
documentary photography is not.
Indeed
I think this coloured photo thing is very skillful technically, but
pointless and uninteresting.
I don't know personally if it is difficult or easy to do but I don't
like that she did it. And to use that Vietname shooting shot for
"art",not to mention the burning monk - well that is pretty hard
to deal with and not right.
I don't have any issues with the ethics of it any more than I do with
Duchamp drawing a moustache and goatee on the Mona Lisa, provided that
copyright etc. are respected.
B
The copyright issue certianly would trouble me.
ann
Ann Sanfedele<[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/19/2012 23:38, Kenneth Waller wrote:
What's next? Will she produce B&W images from someones color prints?
Seems wrong to me. she should go out and produce some original work
of her own !
I think I'm in this camp too... Remember the film colorization mess a
few years back??
I think it's fine for people to hand tint their _own_ photos, but
no matter how skilled she is at doing these they are iconic news
photos and it seems so unnecessary. Especially when most of thes
photos
were produced when color photography existed. And before that, there
were paintings in color... bringing the color into bW photos for a
documentary purpose alone, hmm, maybe ok... but this is art for arts
sake it seems, and not her own, as Ken said. I just can't wrap by old
brain around this.
I think I saw some of her work at the Met recently and it pissed me
off
then, too.
ann
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