sorry, couldn't resist 😊 (just kiddin')
May 3, 2023
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A useful sub-thread would be sharing your opinion on what you think is art (without using examples of your photographs).
Here is an article from 1997 (Amei Wallach, NYT) that asked art-world participants for answers:
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If you frame it, wall it, and say it's art; then it is.
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Not necessarily. Just like photographs that are just documenting things are hard to define as art, sometimes houses gotta get painted too.
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Recommended Reading: The Interior Landscape by Guy Tal. Especially the chapter "Artistic Merit in Photography."
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In addition, I would recommend The Creative Act: A Way of Being by (hip hop producer) Rick Rubin.
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I'm sure I've seen books/magazines referring to 'fine art' photography dating back to at least 1870. Is there any point debating it 150 years later?
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It's fortunate that Nicolaus Copernicus didn't accept that line of thinking after thousands of years of writings about how the Earth was the center of the universe.
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You, sir, are no Copernicus 😉.
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Very interesting.
You are just telling that you are generally not able to perceive art as art, at least not in sense it is commonly used.Can you find/link some examples of paintings what you like? Or photographs?
Do you consider pre-photography ages paintings (landscapes, portraits etc), where the major goal was to 'record' scene or object truthfully, in finest details - and to convey emotion at the same time, art or not?
I quickly searched for some examples of such 'photographic looking' art - would you move them into dumpster or can you enjoy painters work?
www.thecollector.com/8-dutch-landscape-painters-17th-century/ -
That's a very different discussion. Is photography art depends (among other things) on the definition of art. We can say that some people have considered photography to be art at least some of thew time for around 150 years, but others have disagreed for the same time. It's an even more pointless debate than equivalence or the other regular digital regulars.
The point the universe revolves around does not depend on our definitions. No opinion involved, so it is possible to be wrong.
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No, it's exactly the same - just because we've done something for a long time doesn't mean there's no point in debating if it's right.
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Do any of you ever get sick of this?
