Re: [APML]: The difference beteween Mike Dismarmer and Nine Ninc

["Andrea Ricciardi" <mc7624@mclink.it>]

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From: Jerry Lodriguss <jml@astropix.com>
To: astro-photo@nightsky.com
Date: Saturday, August 23, 1997 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [APML]: The difference beteween Mike Dismarmer and Nine Ninc

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>>> The Differnece between Mike Disfarmer and Nine Inch Nails.
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>>> Fifty Years
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>>> the Truth.
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>>> No Difference.
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>>> What does this have to do with Astrophototgraphy?
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>Does anyone think that nature photography (and I would classify
>astrophotography as a branch of nature photography):
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>1. Simply records the beauty of nature?  That is, the beauty is out there
>in the natural world and a photograph merely reflects it?
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>2. Or, is the beauty in the artifact created by the artist and the method
>that it is recorded and presented to the viewer?
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The beauty is in the nature, but not everybody can feel it. We lie down on
ground, and watch the sky at night, in totally silence, and we became part
of it. This is what I feel, this is my beauty that meet the beauty of
nature. If you intend that art is the way of communicate this sensation to
somebody, then no astrophoto I've ever seen is art. For me art is
communication, is the artist that get in touch with me: an astrophoto can
became art in two ways. First, it can make you feel the vastity and power
of the universe, second it can please you for the colors and form,
estetically.
I do mainly astrophotography, and have done some wok that I can think on
the way to became art (still very distant...), and they all are in the
second way. No photo as yet make me feel the universe as watching at it
directly with my naked eyes. Maybe someday...

Hope my english is not too bad for such an argument :-)

Andrea.