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true disguise
2011.10.22
“photoethic” usually refers to moral codes or rules that control the activity of the photojournalist, such as:
- do not intentionally alter or influence events
- do not manipulate images, mislead viewers, misrepresent subjects
rules like these are defending some kind of truth and aiming to strengthen the public confidence in the profession. for art photographers there is a free pass when it comes to artistic statement. in the fine arts it is not the truth, it is the beauty. is that right?
for Friedrich Schiller the aesthetic appreciation of beauty is the most perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of human nature. according to another earlier speculation, beauty is just the sensory version of moral goodness. at this point true and beautiful seems to overlap each other, this is how the beautiful in disguise reappears in the hall of ethic thinking
realizing the ethical aspects of the beautiful does not bring much closer to comprehending its aesthetical appeal. Oscar Wild must be right when he says: "the search after the signs of the beautiful, it is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life" - certainly a hopeless endeavor. although artists are at a slightly better position than philosophers: it seems to be easier creating beauty then recognizing or discussing it
- do not intentionally alter or influence events
- do not manipulate images, mislead viewers, misrepresent subjects
rules like these are defending some kind of truth and aiming to strengthen the public confidence in the profession. for art photographers there is a free pass when it comes to artistic statement. in the fine arts it is not the truth, it is the beauty. is that right?
for Friedrich Schiller the aesthetic appreciation of beauty is the most perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of human nature. according to another earlier speculation, beauty is just the sensory version of moral goodness. at this point true and beautiful seems to overlap each other, this is how the beautiful in disguise reappears in the hall of ethic thinking
realizing the ethical aspects of the beautiful does not bring much closer to comprehending its aesthetical appeal. Oscar Wild must be right when he says: "the search after the signs of the beautiful, it is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life" - certainly a hopeless endeavor. although artists are at a slightly better position than philosophers: it seems to be easier creating beauty then recognizing or discussing it
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photographically speaking: for me the beauty is in the truth & i never want to alter the truth much, even if it will improve the beauty in an aesthetic sense what is this festival you've photographed? it looks quite beautiful!
rmjannette · 2011-10-22: 16:29
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You THINK too much! :-)) A Renaissance Fare??
DancingDolphin · 2011-10-22: 23:17
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the Bristol Renaissance Faire which is off I-94 at the IL/WI border
lyency · 2011-10-22: 23:52
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i'm tired... but anyway, when i read schiller, i need to respond: "moral goodness" has nothing to do with truth; the first is a social convention to obtain peace, the second is an attempt to have a functional relation to reality. it is a common fallacy to equalize both and schiller would be one of the last to do that. when he refers beauty to searching for the truth, he is quite more on the platonic path of the "stufenweg des schoenen", which i believe someone quoted on your blog before: it is a conditio humana to WANT to follow beauty to its perfection since man has this axiomatic wish to be true; to find wisdom and knowledge and the ultimate question to which the answer is "42" ;-) and what do you conclude from the fact that it is easier to produce than to discuss beauty?
stormfish · 2011-10-31: 06:35
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