Photography isn't art

[MLeeK]

Hooka bong. Really really big one

 

[mishele]

Here is that fun thread......lol Just in case you would like to read it again.....:greenpbl:
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photography-beginners-forum-photo-gallery/207617-art.html

 

[Overread17 5]

Mish -- all those flower shots are old now - we need new ones!! Go do arty things with the camera

 

[mishele]

lol
I've been trying to stay away from flowers....lol But here is one just for you......

 

[Overread17 5]

:mrgreen::mrgreen:
The Mish-flower-effect in full glorious motion! Or rather not motion.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Here is that fun thread......lol Just in case you would like to read it again.....:greenpbl:
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photography-beginners-forum-photo-gallery/207617-art.html

I read that entire thread and I thought Petraio Prime made some valid points. Not that I necessarily agree with him, but he made a strong argument for his interpretation of photography as not being "art".

Too bad we was banned. I bet he livened up any thread he was involved in. Nothing wrong with that.

I still do not know if photography is art. I do like visiting galleries and looking at photos. And I collect photo books. I am just an old snapshooter so my interpretation of photography as art is probably a bit skewed. Technical perfection in photography, for the most part, is just dreadfully boring. I need emotion in the photographs I like to look at. And I try for the same thing in my own photography. That may mean breaking most of the rules of excellent photography. But I don't care. Give me an emotional appeal, a depth of understanding- give me a photograph that speaks to my heart and makes me think- regardless of how it is produced or what flaws it may contain- then I consider that art.

 

[KenC]

Some people spend way too much time arguing about what is or isn't art and too little creating whatever it is they create. Most of us do whatever interests us and wouldn't change direction based on someone's definition that labeled it "art" or "not art," so what's the point, really? The images people create are labeled one way or the other after the fact, or often labeled both ways from different sources. In many cases the determination is influenced by publicists' or the artists' promotional efforts. It's almost as bad as politics; maybe it's as bad, I don't know.

 

[unpopular]

I think it's much more useful to think about what is art than what isn't.

 

[KenC]

I think it's much more useful to think about what is art than what isn't.

When you figure out how to do one without doing the other, let me know.

 

[unpopular]

Just be more inclusive than restrictive, think in terms of "how is this art".