The Pigeon And Dove Vol 2 - use of photography / the use of photography
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Vasari MediaArts presents
an aforethought, written, directed, and edited project by
Paolo Sortino & Fabio Taras
THE DOVE AND THE PIGEON
conversations about art and the art-makers
THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Paolo: So, the necessity to represent the alikeness of reality...
...has been exorted away from painting by Photography, isn't it?
...it makes sense, right?
Fabio: Sure, of course!
...yes, it is the evolution of humans that goes on...
...At this stage we are able to say that evolution is actually mechanical...
...and not physiological anymore. So Photography is now...
...an extension of us !
Paolo: I see, it works like a kind of prothesis for us.
Fabio: Exactly. A painter's prothesis!
...but it is all a joke, come.
Paolo: a joke? Why?
...'cause technology brings man to the same accomplishment...
...of the art's one, ok. But all the gentle gets destroyed in this way.
...and also love, passion, even the *** relationship we have with each work...
...everything gets lost. Look, let's put it in this way:
look at the Arch !
a painting or a photograph of it would be both an ***...
...'cause both representations would espress reality...
...as fine as we feel or see it, but...
...there's a huge difference in between.
...a photographer would get the final picture just by...
...setting his camera, his clean cut and cold instrument...
which basically is nothing more then a simple recorder...
Paolo: ...you mean Photography is just another kind of x-ray film...
...or even less if it doesn't point out the skeleton of reality !
Fabio: ...it's correct.
...let's imagine a guy who to get an ***...
...he jerks off watching a *** on internet...
...so, by the instrument he gets his dose of pleasure.
...and now let's think about a different guy who...
...who knows how to approach to real women...
...and he gets involved with them: you see?
the same difference between who masturbates and who is a latin lover...
...also dwells preatty good between a photographer and a painter.
They both have orgasms... but there's a bloody difference, I find!
:)
Paolo: sorry Mate, how is it possible that Photography is nothing but "recording"?
Fabio: I know... what a miserable truth, isn't it?
oh... come on man! Can't believe it...
Fabio: ...Sure mate... I'm telling you !
..I know it sounds silly but we are talking about
such a simple matter that even an idiot is clever enough...
do you know what I mean? Instinct is enough to catch the meaning...
...the sense of what we are saying belongs to everybody...
We also will say that the photographer "records" and the painter "creates"
...painters make themselve the very first elements, like colours...
...they put them together fallowing theier antique knowledge...
in order to transmute them into something definitive and sharable between us...
...photographers don't make such a complex experience instead...
you know, they behave as easy as a child who leaves a sound recorder out of the window...
and then he pretends to say to have been recording the best melody ever
while really, the only track we can listen on his recorder is the birds' singing...
it's a fantastic melody of course, but he didn't play it...
...Nature did it for him !
Don't you understand? Are we joking or what?
It's time to let drop down this silly belief which says that photographers are like painters ! they are not the same !
...some people has killed themselve for a painting...
...fighting to try to catch reality into a convas !
...let's not joke, please.
Paolo: ...are you taking it personally Fabio?
Fabio: ...of course bloody hell ! I'm a painter and I spend months on a single convas, damm!
Paolo: ...listen Mate, someone could say that Leonardo Da Vinci for example...
...he definitely would have used the Photography if he could have the chance. Do you think it is true?
Fabio: absolutely!
....he would have been the greatest photographer!
...he was a scientist, too... he would use it at its best...
...to study a flower for example, in order to paint it...
...as many as he could...
...in every section of the flower and from each side...
he would have saved a lot of time, you know...
Paolo: so... photography as a shortcut to find and settle that part of science still in common with art, is it right?
Fabio: ...yes darling, that's it.
Paolo: ...what are the reasons why Leonardo would have used Photography?
Fabio: there are two reasons...
first: photography is instantaneous, so you save a lot of useful time...
second: the alikeness with reality is nearly perfect - so the vantage explanes hitstelf.
...if you know how to set it, of course!
