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Artist or Historian? - shuttertalk - Feb 24, 2005

How do you see yourself - a historian, recording people, events and details for future memories; or an artist - creating images for pleasurable viewing?

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Artist or Historian? - guerito - Feb 24, 2005

Artist wannabe!

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Artist or Historian? - StudioJ - Feb 25, 2005

I'm a lover not a fighter!

Your cat looks stoned guerito.

Oh and hmm I'd more a historian than an artist. I do a lot of things in a journalistic fashion, it would be nice if I had more passion (and time!).

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Artist or Historian? - shuttertalk - Feb 25, 2005

i would say that i'm more a historian... although like a writer of history books - you would want to write in a fashion that was appealing to read...

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Artist or Historian? - Toad - Feb 25, 2005

A historian - but only because my concept of history is wildly distorted, heavily retouched and not at all based in reality.

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Artist or Historian? - Don Schaeffer - Feb 25, 2005

I feel like an artist. That's why I like distortion so much. Lol.

Incidentally, it's not "pleasurable viewing." It's images that reverberate and stimulate that I aspire to. Very few images really make it of course.

--Don

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