Comments on: Accessibility and Communication http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/10/19/accessibility-and-communication/ Nature photography, art, environment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Artist Boyd Greene http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/10/19/accessibility-and-communication/comment-page-1/#comment-20830 Artist Boyd Greene Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:18:08 +0000 http://grafphoto.com/wordpress/?p=473#comment-20830 As an artist I always strive to communicate with my viewer in hopefully a very understandable way for them. Great post and I love the photos. As an artist I always strive to communicate with my viewer in hopefully a very understandable way for them. Great post and I love the photos.

]]> By: Carl http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/10/19/accessibility-and-communication/comment-page-1/#comment-20823 Carl Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:03:25 +0000 http://grafphoto.com/wordpress/?p=473#comment-20823 Hey Mark, Maybe - I guess I'm learning to see art more as a process than a product - and it's a process of creating. I read a really cool essay recently that suggested literally any creation stands as art, if it's done with love - it's a love for what we do that constitutes what we call 'art' - whether it's painting, writing, dancing, cabinet making, whatever. When we engage that process without a real love and respect for what we do, for the tools we use to do it with, the materials we work with, etc, then it's not art, but something else. I don't disagree that the product of our work can communicate many things to other people - I just question that it must - I think we can make great photographs without worrying about communicating - we probably make greater photographs when we focus on making photographs. Works for me. :) Cheers Carl Carl Hey Mark,

Maybe – I guess I’m learning to see art more as a process than a product – and it’s a process of creating. I read a really cool essay recently that suggested literally any creation stands as art, if it’s done with love – it’s a love for what we do that constitutes what we call ‘art’ – whether it’s painting, writing, dancing, cabinet making, whatever. When we engage that process without a real love and respect for what we do, for the tools we use to do it with, the materials we work with, etc, then it’s not art, but something else. I don’t disagree that the product of our work can communicate many things to other people – I just question that it must – I think we can make great photographs without worrying about communicating – we probably make greater photographs when we focus on making photographs. Works for me. :)

Cheers

Carl
Carl

]]> By: Mark http://www.grafphoto.com/wordpress/2008/10/19/accessibility-and-communication/comment-page-1/#comment-20822 Mark Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:15:21 +0000 http://grafphoto.com/wordpress/?p=473#comment-20822 Well, maybe it is artsy talk, or perhaps something else I won't name... but I have to believe there is some primal psychological response that makes someone think a photograph is good or bad. That subjectivity is likely influenced by a person's connection to that particular image - and how the elements of that image may <em>communicate</em> to the viewer. Well, maybe it is artsy talk, or perhaps something else I won’t name… but I have to believe there is some primal psychological response that makes someone think a photograph is good or bad. That subjectivity is likely influenced by a person’s connection to that particular image – and how the elements of that image may communicate to the viewer.

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