Henri Banks' favorite photos

Die Weihnachtskekse zeigen langsam Wirkung :-)

"Aesthetics owes its name to Alexander Baumgarten who derived it from the Greek aisthanomai, which means perception by means of the senses (see Baumgarten, A.G.). As the subject is now understood, it consists of two parts: the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of the aesthetic experience and character of objects or phenomena that are not art. Non-art items include both artefacts that possess aspects susceptible of aesthetic appreciation, and phenomena that lack any traces of human design in virtue of being products of nature, not humanity. How are the two sides of the subject related: is one part of aesthetics more fundamental than the other? There are two obvious possibilities. The first is that the philosophy of art is basic, since the aesthetic appreciation of anything that is not art is the appreciation of it as if it were art. The second is that there is a unitary notion of the aesthetic that applies to both art and non-art; this notion defines the idea of aesthetic appreciation as disinterested delight in the immediately perceptible properties of an object for their own sake; and artistic appreciation is just aesthetic appreciation of works of art. But neither of these possibilities is plausible." - continues at www.rep.routledge.com/article/M046

=== "Un vétéran et sa femme", ambrotype de 1860 - Auteur anonyme. Archives de la photographie 1840-1940. Libre de droits. /// American civil war veteran and his wife. He is wearing a top hat, coat and medal, she a bonnet with ruffles, paisley shawl, and gloves. L’ambrotype est un procédé photographique élaboré par James Ambrose Cutting en 1854 et qui a concurrencé le daguerréotype en raison de la rapidité d'obtention des images (2 à 4 secondes) et de son prix de revient peu coûteux. === Juste l'homme : www.ipernity.com/doc/daniela.lucie/3468563 . === ===

Heute am Strand

Bäume im Eingangsbereich eines Friedhofes.