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Thursday, 29th March, 2007

Art should lift the human spirit
[posted at 09:06 GMT]    

Yesterday I was listening another podcast from Brooks Jensen (LensWork magazine). He was talking about Tony Bennett's comments on Count Basie. He says that "music of Count Basie lifts the human spirit, which is the essence of Art".

And that is great isn't it. That how it should be. Not as we see mostly in these days that Art is showing us dark side of life. Showing us what kind of terrible things are happening. I fully agree with Brooks Jensen that that in majority of photography published these days is expressing how life is terrible and tragic.

I try something else with my photographs I try to recreate in you, observer, the good memories, good feelings from your mind.
I have received today simple three words comment from person older than me. He was writing how he remembers a situation when he was five. This happened when he was looking on this photograph.
Isn't it great? I am glad that I can do that. I hope I will be able to do simillar things even better...