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48 Ever since the power people decided that photography is an Art, just as in creating God in man’s image rather than the other way around, a lot of people are trying to make photographs that look like Art rather than enlarging the concept of what art is or what it should look like. Prints are getting bigger while ideas are getting smaller. If one looks carefully at most of the very large prints in galleries and museums, it is clear that most of the pictures are not very interesting if you take away the size factor. Remember the ant? By trying to make photographs more than what they inherently are, we LOSE what they inherently are, and the magic disappears. Since photographs are not very complex physically, the difference between an ordinary picture of something and a photograph that has a transcendent or other emotive quality can be extremely subtle and fragile. I’m not suggesting that making large prints is wrong, it’s just not necessarily a gain and can be a loss. SHORT TAKES #2 BIG PRINTS ...

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