Sep 28, 2009

Quick Quotes: Janet Malcolm

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm



Think about that one for a minute. I really like what this quote implies!

2 comments:

Mark said...

Neat quote. I am thinking about those paintings that have a completely different one underneath that the artist wasn't happy with. At least in a philosophical sense the same could be applied to a photograph.

Howard Grill said...

One of the reasons I like this so much is that there seems to me to be so many different interpretations. It struck me as an illustration of the 'struggle' for photography to be recognized as art. It also struck me as a 'definition' of what separates a fine art photograph from a snapshot. I really like what it implied to you as well.