Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Fast forward to 2016, and I'm in this class run by one of these Anti-Photography Nazis. She would rant and prattle on for hours endlessly talking about how anyone who uses photos is a terrible artist. She would constantly talk about "the old Masters" never using devices.

One month she decides to throw a huge student show, and each student starts working hard on finishing a painting for the show. Remember that her method took sometimes 60 hours for a simple still life. If you have a job or live far away you can't finish a painting in 1 month.

This one poor woman worked on her still life constantly for the whole month, and then 1 week before the show she just had to finish a few things. So she took a couple photos, and took the painting home, then brought it back the next day finished. Nazi Realist became suspicious.

"How did you finish this? Did you come in last night?" Squinting at her like this woman had murdered someone in a tiny British village. "No, I uh..." she realizes she's screwed, "took a photo of it and.." Nazi Realist loses it,"There is no WAY I am allowing this in my show!"

Right then and there she throws this woman's art out of one of her most important shows, because this woman used a photo for just 1% of the working time on the painting. Nazi Realist was LIVID that anyone would dare not maintain the purity of the old masters and DARE use Photos.

This is not the only example. I went to a conference where *every* presenter ranted for 50% of their talks about how terrible photos were. They all wanted to bring back "the Salon", which is actually the definition of an authoritarian state backed art show.

Every one of these painters though couldn't tell you when Cadmium or the tin tube was invented. Hint: It's after camera lucida *and* after photography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goffe_Rand … They were very selective in their "without devices" it seems.

There were even some who had no idea that Rembrandt used a massive studio manufacturing operation to produce most of his paintings. They just thought dude sat there and painted all of The Night Watch by himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch …