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

[Anders Thulin <Anders.X.Thulin@telia.se>]

Jerry Lodriguss wrote:

> Does anyone think that nature photography (and I would classify
> astrophotography as a branch of nature photography):

  I'm not sure of that.  One branch of it definitely is, but there is another
branch of that isn't involved with either inherent or
added beauty alluded to in the points quoted below, namely the scientific AP.

  Palomar DSS or Tombaugh's zillion of pre-Pluto plates are part of
that second branch: scientific observation of nature. It doesn't fit in:

> 1. Simply records the beauty of nature?  That is, the beauty is out there
> in the natural world and a photograph merely reflects it?

as beauty wasn't the purpose of the taking the plates, nor does it fit:

> 2. Or, is the beauty in the artifact created by the artist and the method
> that it is recorded and presented to the viewer?

as the artist didn't choose, but photographed everything.

  As a deliberate contrast, perhaps another question would work:

        Who's the Jacob A. Riis of astrophotography?







  




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