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Re: Gardens, a few that I have noticed.
Pat Swovelin 2006-Jul-10 22:42:00
Caroling Geary wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Bernhard Vogl wrote:
>
>> to add
>> another category to the gardens: God's own garden (not meant in a
>> creationist but in a metaphysical way):
>
> This is a great category! To avoid the idea of a supernatural being
> doing the wild gardening, I would call it the "found garden". That is
> like found art. That is where the garden appears to be a garden to
> the photographer, who finds it, records it, and calls it a garden. To
> someone else it might have been undeveloped real estate, a vacant
> lot, or weeds.
>
> Is making panoramas an art form?
ALL photography is art so by extension panoramic photography is also an
expression of that same art. Not to mention all of the technical
mumbo-jumbo involved in framing and capturing a shot that's a complete
sphere.
> I believe it can be. If so, we can
> place it firmly in art history by using standard art criticism.
>
> Caroling Geary, www.wholeo.net
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large