Further, you don't need a lens. You just need some image-forming optical
element, which can be a simple lens, a complex multiple-element lens, a
mirror (the vast majority of telescopes are actually telescopic cameras
with a mirror as the primary or only image-forming element), or a hole
drilled in a piece of wood.
For that matter, I wonder if a painter hung a blank a blank canvas on
the back wall of a camera obscura and then painted the pattern of the
image that fell there, would that be photography? Or is the crucial
element that the light actually writes the image, in which case a
computer/numerically controlled laser etching into a block of wood could
make a claim to be photography.
No, even I won't go there. But I would say you need a subject array of
elements that are bathed in light, an objective (the optical term under
which our lenses fall), and a recording medium. That defines
photography. Any combination of multiple photographs or cropping of a
larger photograph still results in photography. As you point out,
painting on it doesn't eliminate the photography. Distorting the image
makes it a distorted photograph rather than a nonphotograph.
Van
On 12/04/2011 3:35 PM, James Parker wrote:
>
> It is a photograph if it is created using light, a lens and a light
> receptive medium to capture the image. Doesn't matter if you
> manipulate one or multiple images and paint all over the prints
> afterwards--it's still a photograph. Most of the major shows will use
> this as the definition of the medium. There are a few photographers
> who jury under digital art, but most stay within photo nowadays.
>
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