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Old 4th September 2008, 06:14 PM
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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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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.
Dave- I would have to say I am one of those who just takes picture as I do not have the where with all or any particular desire to publish my pictures. I have never belonged to a photographic club in fact I don't belong to clubs. Fortunately, I am blissfully content with my own company but that does not mean I am antisocial.

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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I see photography as an art form albeit, I do not include digital photography in that.
I guess digital photography creates an art form all of it's own
Is photography art?
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Is photography art?
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 :-)

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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?

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Art must first be defined before one can decide if photography can be art.
No no … otherwise a pile of bricks would not be classed as art…..(I was not impressed with them at the time but ‘horses for courses’).

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.
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Is photography art?
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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