On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:21:40 GMT, classicphoto@bellsouth.dotnyet (Classic Photo) wrote:
>In article <36b01010.1765750@news2.cts.com>, asher@cts.com says...

>>No, it's not. The main reason some artists don't respect photography
>>as an art form is that they believe photographers merely capture an
>>image, while artists create an image.

>Photographers paint with light. Very often the resultant image
>can look very different from the actual subject. Sometimes on
>purpose :)

One can easily argue that in photography the
resultant image almost always looks very
different from the actual subject... ;-)
Photography is generally a very poor recording
medium (and even worse, since so many people
believe photographic "records" are accurate,
which they generally are not...).