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Nebulous Ingredients
It’s long seemed to me that there are but two types of photographer, those that crave fame and fortune and those that make pictures.
This is the place to discuss them, together with those most nebulous of photographic ingredients, art and aesthetics. |
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Regarding the second part of your question. I see photography as an art form albeit, I do not include digital photography in that. I can see there is a need for digital cameras, photojournalists and professionals but there is something about a digital image. Maybe it is too perfect and slightly synthetic. I guess digital photography creates an art form all of it's own
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Is photography art?
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Art must first be defined before one can decide if photography can be art.
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I just want to be creative - what happens after that is a bonus :-)
Neil.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle Neil Souch |
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I would have thought there were two kinds of photographers. The ones who talk tech all day, pouring over data, stats, density numbers, developer formulas and dilutions, and the other half that actually produce photographs :P
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As with most things the answer to these questions are not black and white
over the 30 years I have been in photography I have met photographers who like to talk f stops and characteristic curves, and photographers who like to talk aesthetics and allegory. If all people do is talk then it doesn't matter which camp your in. For me taking photographs is the most important thing, for whatever reason. There are people who can sit in both camps, capable of talking technically or aesthetically, one who comes to mind is Ansel Adams, I don't go along with the notion that people are in one camp or the other, though they can be, there are always exceptions and people who fall somewhere in between. As to the question about is it art, according to the art world anything can be art, though I often get the impression they think this is true if you have the right credentials to fit their criteria. Great photography is art to me, I'll take a Bill Brandt or Arthur Tress photograph an my wall over a Tracy Emin or Chapman Brothers piece of work any day. But this is only my opinion and the great thing about life is there is always someone who will disagree, wouldn't it be boring otherwise? Neil |
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Art is the ability to create some thing that people find pleasing to the eye and if one wishes to be pedantic – pay for it! Why should photography not be classed as art? – This seems to be a very UK attitude (I can take that picture – so it cannot be art…) One just needs to look at some of the photographs on this site; if this is not art I give up and go back to the bricks and my Guinness. David. |
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Ho, ho, ho, ho. That always gives me a giggle. It's true that some people don't want it to be, but they are mostly dead.
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When an article titled, "Edward Weston - Artist" was sent to him he circled the word "Artist" and added the comment, "cut, or change to 'photographer,' of which title I am very proud."
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