[artshow_photo] Re: When does a photo stop being a photo?

Hi,
I found this lively thread very interesting. IMOP it is the print that is important and represents the photographer's vision. What ever photographic technology you have to use to print that image onto paper, canvas, wood, metal or whatever substrate you can run through the printer in the end is not important to the person who buys the image. It is the realization of the artist/photographer's vision into a tangible form that is important.

I have used photography as my creative tool since the 1960's and digital has allowed me to create images from my old film negatives that I may not have be able to or made it easier to do.
I consider myself a photographer first and visual artist second but sometimes I have to market myself as a visual artist who works in mixed media because I will have incorporated my photographs, which I will photoshop if needed into a constructed installation. To my collectors I'm still a photographer and my heavily manipulated images are still photographs to them and they are savvy collectors.

Painters will never be happy with what photographers can do with digital photography and digital printing. I have been told I could not show in a festival in New Orleans if I printed my images on watercolor paper or canvas as I was being dishonest creating images that have painterly effects.

It's a brave new world for photographers and visual artists and the line I feel are crossing over and blurring. In the future we may be able to interface with the quantum computer and download our visual memories directly to the web and directly to the viewers brain. Sounds far fetch but who thought digital photography would take over in less than 30 years.

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Sa'longo Lee
www.salongosart.com
Studio: 601.493.0392
salongosart@gmail.com

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