hopeless artfag that I am, yes
it realy is a nice photograph though
its not the photo. its the sunset. hahahahaha.
Nik Payne December 28 at 11:44pm
well it's kind of the "if a tree falls in the forest" paradox-
Is a sunset really beautiful if nobody is there to see it?
Without the photograph, there would be no beautiful sunset--I could not have witnessed this sunset without the photograph.
The sunset is therefore, of less importance than the photograph.
Is this a beautiful photograph, or a beautiful sunset?
The photograph is beautiful, because it makes the sunset tangible--it gives the sunset an audience, and without an audience, an object can never be beautiful, since only people are arbiters of beauty.
Is a pipe really not a pipe, as Magritte said?
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