Aaron Scharf Quotes

The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower,
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Bringing Development Extent Factual Idea Large Material Stature
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.
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Conclusion led Mean Recording Simply
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.
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Balancing Imaginative Meaningful Mechanical Traditional
Questioning the idea of Art with a capital ‘A’, photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
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Capital Idea Inevitably Questioning Stature
Neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.”
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Ignore Partner
Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.”
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Artfulness Cooking Hand Make Medium Talking
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science.
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Balancing Imaginative Mechanical Research. Meaningful Traditional
In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students,
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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media
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Aware Distinction Other Visual
Deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists.
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Deprived Fourth Inculcated Richer Sent

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