Thomas Hawk's entry on a lame notion that started by a lame writer who doesn't think that photography is art.

Tony Long at Wired has written an article on how photography is not art. I invite you to read it. Then I invite you to read Thomas Hawk's perspectives on this.

To summarize it, Tony Long feels that photography is not art. He writes that art requires "a selective re-creation." He continues and states that a camera cannot paint to make a visual conceptualization.

I am sure that you already know what I feel about that.

If you apply Tony Long's opinion (and you know what they say about opinions) on what art is, what can be said about dancers, singers, writers--pretty much anybody who uses the left frontal lobe for getting a task done. They are all artists.

I can't imagine anyone with any sense would write an article as lame as this and not provide a disclaimer at the beginning stating that this is satire or a joke. Instead, the reader (pretty much starting with any amateur photographer who knows what the manual settings on a camera do) who decides to continue reading through this I-can't-believe-he-writes-for-Wired-this-is-lame article constantly scratches his head wondering if this guy is serious.

Seriously lame.

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