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Thomas Hawk’s entry on a lame notion that started by a lame writer who doesn’t think that photography is art.

Tony Long at Wired has written an article on how photography is not art. I invite you to read it. Then I invite you to read Thomas Hawk’s perspectives on this.

To summarize it, Tony Long feels that photography is not art. He writes that art requires “a selective re-creation.” He continues and states that a camera cannot paint to make a visual conceptualization.

I am sure that you already know what I feel about that.

If you apply Tony Long’s opinion (and you know what they say about opinions) on what art is, what can be said about dancers, singers, writers–pretty much anybody who uses the left frontal lobe for getting a task done. They are all artists.

I can’t imagine anyone with any sense would write an article as lame as this and not provide a disclaimer at the beginning stating that this is satire or a joke. Instead, the reader (pretty much starting with any amateur photographer who knows what the manual settings on a camera do) who decides to continue reading through this I-can’t-believe-he-writes-for-Wired-this-is-lame article constantly scratches his head wondering if this guy is serious.