> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jens Bladt > Sent: 13 July 2006 17:09 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: Bad taste > > So did one of my fovotire paintings, Hip, hip, hurra! I have seen it > exibited with the photographs as well: > http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/dk/udstilling/tidligere/privatliv/ > side%205/ > Further more, many golden age Dutch painters used lenses and > light in order > to project images of people on to the canvas on which they > painted! So the > limit between painting and photography is not really too clear.
It's quite clear. Photography is a direct method in which the (latent) image is produced by the direct action of light on the sensor. On the other hand painting, even with the use of lenses and so on, is indirect and has to go through the painter's mind, technique and manual skill (or art). Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
