Re: [APML]: Astrophotography or Astro-Art?

[Jerry Lodriguss <jml@astropix.com>]

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>Does this mean Art is only a manipulated process of the subject
>rendered? 
>I can speak in terms of photography. Here's an example; Ansel Adams, he
>shot straight forward images of the scenes he found himself in front of.
>His only form of manipulation was to insure all the tonal values were
>rendered as optimal aa possible, no changes. His work was considered
>Art. 

Ansel Adams used filters to change the tonal values in his images. See
Moonrise, Hernendez New Mexico.  The sky was not black when he took the
photo since the sun was still up illuminating the graveyard in the
foreground. He got off a frame and then lost that light.  Point is,
although people considered Adams a realist, he manipulated the hell out of
his images, spending hours and hours in the darkroom burning and dodging.





>I feel there is no definition of art, and we should not try with the
>exception of what our hearts and minds find comfortable.


As far as the definition of art... I apply the same definition to art that
Chuang-Tzu applied to the Tao:

"If one asks about the Tao and another answers him, neither of them knows it."

<G>

Jerry
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