Bifurcator
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It's amazing just how many people give this answer, or something similar, when asked this question.
A little thought and it can be seen that it is far from satisfactory as an answer as it does not explain anything but is merely a definition.
It's like responding to the question 'what is Art?'
Not to me. "Art" is something I do. Sometimes it involves photography, sometimes 3D or 2D tools on a computer, sometimes paints or pencils, sometimes a tree-stump and a chain-saw. Photography is a medium the art itself. And his question was phrased in an inadequate way if he was looking for any other kind of answer.
He didn't ask "what does photography mean to you", "what are your feelings about your photography" or anything that would lead the reader to think he was after any other answer than a definition. The answers are only as on point as the questions and the question as he phrased it was "What is photography?". Any other answer but a definition would require a lot of imaginative interjection IMO. Or if you're right then let him ask that question in an intelligent way.
Also the act of viewing, critiquing, sorting, transporting, standing on, or jumping over a photograph outside of the creation process has nothing to do with photography. Certainly nothing more than doing any of those things to a car, oil painting, building, or tree has to do with the creative processes that bring those things into existence or their temporal origins.
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