Re: A NEW DEBATE

Hi:

I use pinhole camera because it "reinterprets" reality. I usually use
cameras that introduce at least some distortion and some cameras that
distort a great deal.

I am struck by the way that the camera "sees" the world in a substantially
different manner than I do. The image is a real image, the way the camera
saw it, not a second generation darkroom based or computer based
alteration of an image. Its just not the way I see the same situation.

Perhaps its my belief that the world is often a collection of
contradictions, or that even the smallest thing can reveal mysterious or
nearly magical qualities.

There is also the magic of each picture being a surprise. Each camera
reinterprets things in a different way. A scene taken with one camera
will look substantially different from another camera.

What I consider taking a picture of depends on the camera I'm using.
There are also situations that I would not have considered worth taking a
picture, until I use a particular camera and realize it would reinterpret
that situation in some sort of interesting manner.

As I have more cameras available the number of "pictures" out there
waiting to be taken increases substantially.

Pinhole cameras let me look upon the world with many different
perspectives.

Gord

> >> I would like to open up a debate.
> >>
> >> I feel it is time we discussed critically what we are doing. Not a
> >> critiscism of individual works or persons but a debate on our aims,
> > purposes
> >> and motivation. We hardly ever talk about why and what we are doing,
> >> almost always how.
> >>
> >> What is more important, style or content?
> >>
> >> Are you driven by developing the subject and idea or by the means of
> >> achieving this through technical innovations?
> >>
> >> Some of us are very interested in technique and some in content, obviously
> >> the two should work together one informing the other, but what do you
> > think?
> >>
> >> Alexis
> >>
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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
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Received on Sun Jan 13 16:57:49 2002