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In Reply to: Re: The "decisive moment"? posted by Romy on January 17, 2002 at 11:00:30:
Painting exists in a totally self-manufactured world like fiction writing. To me, non-fiction is far stranger than fiction because there are real events that become stranger than fiction.I find the world itself far more interesting and bizarre than anything I've seen painted. Therefore, I love photography because I can find those small moments in space and time where everything comes together, including serendipidous events, to make "reality" unreal. I truly love examining the visual flotsam and jetsam created by humans. Telephone poles, train tracks, jet trails, roads, fences...any and all of the "visual interruptions" so unnaturally placed - can't get enough.
***"...but in photography the dead process has too much influence to the artistic result..."***
Self-limitation by self definition. Photography can be whatever you want it to be. Real, unreal, surreal, abstract,...it's up to you - hell, paint ON the photograph if you like painting. It's certainly NOT the visual medium that's in question, it's the imagination of the artist to exploit the medium. Painting has it's materials/process limitations which influence the final work. Sorry, can't buy into your thesis.
Contrast Ralph Eugene Meatyard with Edward Weston. Meatyard had his own world which he created, while Weston found abstract forms throughout the world he traveled. Elger Esser makes 3 hour exposures where the world changes througout the photo flattening the light and obscuring details. Contrast that to Harold Edgerton who explored the world through small instants in time.
You have to use and control the tools & processes in any art form to create the image you want - that's the challenge. If you feel process-limited, then don't blame the art form, look at yourself. If you still feel you are limited, then change your mode of expression through something you are more in tune with - but, don't blame the medium.
Picasso started as a spectacular realistic painter. After seeing his first photograph he declared that painting was dead - and then went on to expand and explore new methods of expression in painting for the rest of his life - partially spurred on by the photographic challenge to painting's ability to minutely render reality. In the '70's and 80's, photo-realistic painting appeared to challenge photography again...and the circle was complete.
Finally, I really don't think of photography as "art." It's really more of a sport.
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