What is nothing?

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"In baseball, you don't know nothing." - Yogi Berra

 

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"Nothing is easy." - Ian Anderson

 

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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case,

I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen

 

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"Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is." -

Yogi Berra

 

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"You can't think of nothing." - Eric Rohmer

 

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"Happy Holidays" - Anonymous

[msitaraman]

Grammar and Photographic knowledge will answer your question, Dan.

 

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Consider.

 

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"That ain't nothing". A double negative. Clearly, this is a wise

insider's reference to some mysterious process involving

internegatives. Perhaps you should have put your negative in the

fixer first, and made an internegative (11x14 minimum size). Then you

would have a lot of nothing if you printed it.

 

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So, these harmless fellows mean no disrespect after all!

 

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Shoot for days, follow above instructions and go back to them with

loads of nothing, and hear their applause as they learn that you too,

who used to have something, have turned it all into nothing.

 

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"<b><i>This</b></i> is nothing", you can proudly say...

[ellis_vener_photography]

"Nothing is/<P> Everything"<I>Peter Townsend

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all the philosophical b.s. swirling around this conversation...now

thats something!!

[james___]

Hey! What about those new Readyloads!? Lumber "Let's Change This Stpid

Thread" Jack

[nacio_jan_brown3]

And all this time I thought that the "Philosophy of Photography" was

the forum for contributors to talk past each other by the scrupulous

avoidance of defining of terms. njb

[emile_de_leon9]

When you see your total nothingness...and the nothingness of every

thing around you...then something big happens!

[ellis_vener_photography]

<i>Argh!</I> double html arrgh!</I>

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html check!

[704 studio]

I remember walking through an exhibit of paintings at the art

institute and coming to a canvas that was painted blank white, or

maybe it was just primer? A middle-aged woman with a couple of kids

walked up to it, stared for about three seconds, turned to her

husband, and said, "I could have done that!" I turned to her and

wanted to ask how many paintings she had made in her lifetime, but

didn't, figuring the amount was zero. As a wife, a mother, she was

something, but as painter she was most likely nothing. It is possible

she could have painted that white canvas, and also some as good as

Morris Graves or Wolf Khan, had she decided to dedicate her life to

the craft of painting, but in her call of "I could have done that!",

is a plea of desperation, of missed chances, of not having the

intelligence to follow her heart. Seeing the white canvas was a

humiliation, a knowing that some people were following the correct

path, but she was not one of them.......

[hugo_j._zhang1]

I went to see Edward Weston's exhibition last Saturday. One of his

early photo was subtitled "Something out of Nothing?".