The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.