I think the issue of design being a verb or a noun is also applicable to photographs.
Yes, at one point a photograph is a noun. But could it be an object without a human being able to create it, to handle it, and to articulate the perception of it belonging to a category of objects that come to live only in the process of interpreting it?
To me a photograph resides in the interaction between a viewer and the viewed. It entail a process. Good photographers are not robots who can press the button of a camera, they are likely to have a sense of what viewers may find interested when engaging with their creations. When photographing succeeds, it results in conveying something that photographers saw and found appealing -- relating two processes expressable in two verbs.
Klaus
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> On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Paul Mike Zender <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ken:
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> I responded to Terry's incorrect assertion that design doesn't result in made objects, but if we accept his (incorrect) definition then photographers are not designers because their work definitely, always, makes an object: the photograph. It's what photographers do, they make photographs.
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> Hence, I believe Terry answered his own question: photographers in Terry's world are not designers.
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> Based on out past conversations I realize you see design more as a verb than a noun, and as you know and I just have articulated I see it as both verb and noun. Designers have always (in recorded history) been craftspersons plus strategizes. Design does not work on the think system (Professor Harold Hill, the Music Man).
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> Best...
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> Mike Zender
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