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Posted by: Michael McGowan (24.93.248.8) on June 01, 2003 at 17:35:39

Location: Ohio

In Reply to: Re: Stop knocking snapshots! posted by Owen Phairis on June 01, 2003 at 16:32:08:

Owen, think of "pleases" as just one aspect of "disturb." Art disturbs us, because it moves us from that mental place where we were prior to seeing/experiencing it.

Sometimes the place it takes us is pleasure.

As for titles, I don't totally reject them. I've used them from time to time, when it pleases me. But think of the Marilyn Monroe photo that graced the first Playboy magazine. Or any of hundreds of others burned into your consciousness from the past few decades. Many of them were "untitled."

Jurors at shows have accepted my work, sometimes as "Untitled No. 5," but they don't demand descriptive titles. Some of my "titles" are just silliness, like the one I put on this photo when I have to: "Droopy."

My entire point here is that photography, whether art or other genres, need not be one way to be good. Let's just apply the Duke Ellington missive, that there are only two kinds of photography: good and bad. It's up to us to decide for ourselves into which category a photo falls. (And God forbid that one falls into the in-between category of "mediocre.")

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: Owen, think of "pleases" as just one aspect of "disturb." Art disturbs us, because it moves us from that mental place where we were prior to seeing/experiencing it.

: Sometimes the place it takes us is pleasure.

: As for titles, I don't totally reject them. I've used them from time to time, when it pleases me. But think of the Marilyn Monroe photo that graced the first Playboy magazine. Or any of hundreds of others burned into your consciousness from the past few decades. Many of them were "untitled."

: Jurors at shows have accepted my work, sometimes as "Untitled No. 5," but they don't demand descriptive titles. Some of my "titles" are just silliness, like the one I put on this photo when I have to: "Droopy."

: My entire point here is that photography, whether art or other genres, need not be one way to be good. Let's just apply the Duke Ellington missive, that there are only two kinds of photography: good and bad. It's up to us to decide for ourselves into which category a photo falls. (And God forbid that one falls into the in-between category of "mediocre.")


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