[Leica] The negative as positive

[mcintyre at ca.inter.net (mcintyre@ca.inter.net)]

OK, I'm a bit lost with this thread, especially in terms of Leica 
photography. But I can
make the 
following observation. I don't think it is possible to make a literal 
comparison of the
"performing" arts to 
the "creative" arts. I use quotations because both pursuits deal with 
creativity, but arts
like sculpture, 
painting, weaving, architecture etcetera are involved in the manufacturing, 
or creation,
of a new 
tangible physical item. (Photography has always had a difficult time 
straddling this
arbitrary divide, but 
that's a different discussion.) However, in music for example, the composer 
creates, but
the performer 
also creates, even though the performer is echoing another artist's 
creation, the
composition. Theatre 
and dance have the same issues. No two musicians/actors/dancers will perform 
the same
piece 
identically even though they are starting from the same place. But is it 
"creative" to set
up an 8 x 10 
view camera in Yosemite and photography exactly, or even closely, what Adams 
made? Post-
modernists aside, not likely. Mind you there have been many tributes to 
artists and
photographers past 
by recreating with a twist a previous image, but this carries its own kind 
of creation.

Anyway, on to the next thread....

Jim




> On 7 Oct 2004, at 14:04, Phong wrote:
> > In the exposure/develop/print photographic
> > chain, what is the music equivalent of exposure ?
> 
> Writing the music, surely?
> 
> P.
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