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Anonymous
(Good thread topic, OP.)
>I'm an aspiring aerospace engineer.
Besides Butterfly, you're in the company of Josef Koudelka, who majored in Aerospace Engineering in college.
>However, looking at top editorial, commercial, and fine arts photographers in the world, it's hard to warrant as much respect for their contributions as, say, that of a surgeon or engineer.
I'd respect an editorial or artistic photographer as much as a surgeon or engineer. The editorial photographer's role is just as practical and essential to a functioning society. And while art might not be essential to a society on a bare, mechanical level, humans aren't robots. We have spiritual needs and curiousities that need stimulating, so we mke the best use we can of the practical and of our own lives.
Plus, everyone has different skills. I do think, though, that an artist- of any sort- ought not to make a living through it, both to keep money out of art and to keep the artist from being cut off from the broader world. My favorite example- Franz Kafka worked an office job his entire adult life, but at night he went home and wrote some of the greatest literature ever.
>Can one compare the work of, for example, Ansel Adams to that of Albert Einstein? Yes, definitely.
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