tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085081679827128157.post4181774224312511585..comments2023-09-20T11:05:27.924+02:00Comments on manual focus photography: is photography art?koen kallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00303837009524787133noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085081679827128157.post-71490428458790787252017-04-07T05:58:12.469+02:002017-04-07T05:58:12.469+02:00What is art?
Wikipedia describes art like this.
&q...What is art?<br />Wikipedia describes art like this.<br />"Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power."<br />For what I'm concerned, that could very well be the definition of photographing as well...yes, I think photography is a form of art, but not all photographs are art.<br />More to read here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/oct/19/photography-is-it-artLakituhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12254116678712008546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085081679827128157.post-30460396104524000612011-02-07T09:58:43.332+01:002011-02-07T09:58:43.332+01:00I was still thinking about it, and I found a secon...I was still thinking about it, and I found a second exemption in which photography can be art. And that is portrait-photography or photography of people in situations or activities they are doing.<br />Art, because and if the photos are expressing something that evokes an emotion within the watcher, purely or mainly caused by the way the photograph has been taken, so "ordinary" snapshots of people on holidays are in most instances not art. Some candid pictures meet that condition, some studio-portraits do (if they are not too "sophisticated" and also spontaneous portraits.<br />I was also thinking about landscapes and city/town views, this can be assigned to the first exemption I mentioned above.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08731308036195016808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085081679827128157.post-63929067509370258252011-02-06T22:18:09.824+01:002011-02-06T22:18:09.824+01:001. I am influenced by the old-fashion B&W phot...1. I am influenced by the old-fashion B&W photography, I try to make pictures like they did if the opportunity is there. <br />2. I also agree that modern technology can make a picture so perfect, that you can call it either "exactly like nature" or "fake" but not art anymore. You can imitate Jacob Olie in a photo using a modern advanced Nikon , but Jacob Olie worked with the technology of those days, and you have to fine-tune the buttons and menues of the Nikon or the Photoshop-program to get the Jacob Olie-effect.<br /><br />There's only one exemption: if you see a piece of reality such as e.g. a part of a construction, a special combination of ight and shadow and/or colors, you can identify it as an appealing picture, and make a photograph of it. That's what you did with your macro-pictures on Flickr, and that's what I did with e.g. the shadow on the wall of the office building in my village. Combined with the shapes of the windows, the reeds, and the colors, it gives a piece of reality you can define and/or identify as art if you consider it as a "crop" out of its real-world surroundings.<br /><br />3. I agree that photography needs lesser-quality lenses and other equipment to become a form of art (again). That's also why I like analog photography. There are a number of analog-photographers on Flickr who work like this, unconsciously they create art in my view. One of them pictures only streets and town views, but in a very subtle way he creates a certain atmosphere throughout his whole work.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08731308036195016808noreply@blogger.com