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Hockney Denounces Photography
Artist David Hockney has publically denounced photography as a legitimate art form in the Guardian newspaper, claiming “that photographs can be so easily altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or true”. Hockney claims that art photography is “dulll” and that the validity of war photography has been cast into doubt by digital imaging techniques. Apparently “Hockney hopes there will be a positive side-effect for painting, which will gain in standing in reverse proportion.” Hmmmm.
Website: The Guardian- “The camera today? You can’t trust it.”
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#1 Robert Grenetz
Hockney should know, as an artist, all art is a type of filter and
a type of perceptual manipulation. By choosing to focus on and capture a particular image with a camera, you do filter out the rest of the world around you. So even the most untouched photo is a record of an incomplete truth or an incomplete fact. Just as painting went from realism to modernism, photographers are learning to take part of what they percieve and reinterpret their perceptions in more personal, experimental ways. So he is condemning photographers for what many other artists and paintere have been doing for almost one hundred years.
Now, that's Hackneyed!!
2:35 pm - Friday, March 5, 2004
#2 guest
I stick my tongue out to people who make such ridiculous statements!
7:17 pm - Friday, March 5, 2004
#3 glad
Since when have artists painted the truth they have always painted their interpretation. Photography has always been mainpulated from it's birth, the only difference today is that it's available to the masses perhaps that's what he getting at.
When you take a picture it is a record of that moment in time when you pressed the shutter and light hit the film, again this is opne to interpretation as we have no idea what happened before or after the photo was taken.
9:00 pm - Friday, March 5, 2004
#4 Oleg Kikin
That's the stupidest thing i've heard in months. Why even post that crap?
11:09 pm - Friday, March 5, 2004
#5 Ray
A wee bit hockneyed. Great new expression.
Now I have something to label those pics that just don't measure up to expectations. Oops, another Hockney. Damn cameras, you just can't trust them.
Nice.
2:16 am - Saturday, March 6, 2004
#6 painting-hater
From now I boldly declare that all painting is not art. And now let's go after sculpture, music, and all other heretofore known "art" fortms. All art will be dead soon because of the advent of digital. From now on, all new art must be done by computers!
3:10 am - Sunday, March 7, 2004