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Can't See The Pictures for the Pixels
Good morning! Just a short note this morning, as I'm busy — well, distracted anyway — by the coming of America's annual homage to its Christian heritage.
Despite being fundamentally jaded about the psychology of amateur photographers who are expert shoppers, I've been lurking about various forums recently, reading opinions about the new Nikon D2H, which is just now shipping to consumers and beginning to be reviewed.
Whenever a much-awaited new camera appears, there seems to appear along with it an initial gush of excitement, followed by a more prolonged period of hand-wringing and existential anxiety, as people whose photographic identities are tied to what they own begin to ferret out the perceived or agreed-upon weaknesses of the device.
Not for the consumer is the old art-school attitude that a good artist can make art out of anything, including, literally, junk. Duchamp made art out of nothing, seemingly ("It is art because I ...

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