Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-05 Thread Dag T
From: Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hockney on photography Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:29:38 -0500 His first statement: Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily altered these days that they can no longer be seen

Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Bob W
Hi, on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview with David Hockney about the trustworthiness of photography. Here is an article about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm I agree with him about art photography, but, like Russell Roberts, I thought his

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread mike wilson
Hi, Bob W wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm I agree with him about art photography, but, like Russell Roberts, I thought his arguments about factual photography were rather simplistic. Still, it's interesting to hear him, nevertheless. Hockney's just plain

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread graywolf
And if he didn't his editors sure did. Actually, since he claims he never did his own darkroom work, the statement that he never cropped his photos was true even if every one was cropped by the lab technician. Actually, photos have never been unmanipulated, even simple snapshots are at the

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Christian
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM Subject: Hockney on photography Hi, on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview with David Hockney about the trustworthiness of photography. Here is an article about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread graywolf
can be seen as factual or true not even snap shots taken by grandma. Christian - Original Message - From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM Subject: Hockney on photography Hi, on my home from work tonight I listened to an interview

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm What a pathetic load of twaddle. (I'm being polite here.) First quotation is an outright falsehood: ...it won't be made the way Cartier-Bresson made his. We know he didn't crop them. Then he goes on with

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Mark Roberts Subject: Re: Hockney on photography To quote a noted PDML'er: Why is photography the only art form for which some neurotics demand something called truth? - Bob Blakely (The answer: Because they're neurotic, elitist and more than a little

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
he/she wants you to see it. No photograph can be seen as factual or true not even snap shots taken by grandma. Christian - Original Message - From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:13 PM Subject: Hockney on photography Hi, on my home from

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Christian Subject: Re: Hockney on photography His first statement: Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or true. is crap! I've said it before and I'll

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 Mar 2004 at 18:50, William Robb wrote: What is happening though, is that one can no longer trust a photograph to be a reflection of reality, no matter the motive of the photographer. As that moron boy at the LA times proved, it is just too easy to alter reality to suit ones own agenda.