Can a Photograph be considered Art (41)
Dawn7z: Anything can be art including the way you do your job. It's about the heart, passion and process more than the actual process and of course photography can be art. Have you seen some of the marvelous pictures that people using their imaginations have captured. Zooming in on an old door to the point that someone doesn't recognize what it is. Capturing people emotions or actions. Art can't be relegated to a boxed in idea.
Yes Indeed art is in The eyes & heart Of The Beholder
& The artist whatever the form Ex: " God " Is a Wonderfull
Artist just look at all The beauty in nature & in Most
Earthly Art Forms ................ JMHO
GoodHeartforYou: This is something I had a discussion about with some college friends about 30 years ago who claimed their pictures were art.
My View: A photograph is not art.
Art is something one creates essentially from "raw materials" , such as a painting or sculpture. Art is also created from your heart and mind - such as a Song or a Poem.
My View: A photograph is not art.
Art is something one creates essentially from "raw materials" , such as a painting or sculpture. Art is also created from your heart and mind - such as a Song or a Poem.
Hello All,
Of course photography can be art, you are using raw materials there too! it can be also created from your heart and mind, with a lot of passion, which of course can be seen on the photo. Maybe you missed to see really good ones yet. Not just a photo exhibition closest to your place or just a series made by a friend.
You need to be at the right place at the right moment using the right point of view and the right distance and zoom and lights and composition, colours, shadows, shapes, to impress people or to disappoint them or to generate any special feeling, or just to show them how you see the world. Photography can be a piece of art. Lots of bad ones existing though, but most of them because they are the memory of the people involved or connected, another reason is that most people are visual so there are a lot of pix which just look good or repaired by a software became unreal, so just fantasy. Those I do not think as art. You just need to have an eye for art photos, besides the knowledge of your camera and options of composition/light and all. I like macros, most of the time we skip details as in a rush usually, but can be recharging to enjoy nature that close :)
Unfortunately I do not have too much on file, will look into it, Im very new here (less than 24h), like this forum.
Hopefully keep in touch,
B
Of course photography can be art, you are using raw materials there too! it can be also created from your heart and mind, with a lot of passion, which of course can be seen on the photo. Maybe you missed to see really good ones yet. Not just a photo exhibition closest to your place or just a series made by a friend.
You need to be at the right place at the right moment using the right point of view and the right distance and zoom and lights and composition, colours, shadows, shapes, to impress people or to disappoint them or to generate any special feeling, or just to show them how you see the world. Photography can be a piece of art. Lots of bad ones existing though, but most of them because they are the memory of the people involved or connected, another reason is that most people are visual so there are a lot of pix which just look good or repaired by a software became unreal, so just fantasy. Those I do not think as art. You just need to have an eye for art photos, besides the knowledge of your camera and options of composition/light and all. I like macros, most of the time we skip details as in a rush usually, but can be recharging to enjoy nature that close :)
Unfortunately I do not have too much on file, will look into it, Im very new here (less than 24h), like this forum.
Hopefully keep in touch,
B
I'll take color pictures and change them to black and white,,frame them,,definately art
Barbeq: Hello All,
Of course photography can be art, you are using raw materials there too! it can be also created from your heart and mind, with a lot of passion, which of course can be seen on the photo. Maybe you missed to see really good ones yet. Not just a photo exhibition closest to your place or just a series made by a friend.
You need to be at the right place at the right moment using the right point of view and the right distance and zoom and lights and composition, colours, shadows, shapes, to impress people or to disappoint them or to generate any special feeling, or just to show them how you see the world. Photography can be a piece of art. Lots of bad ones existing though, but most of them because they are the memory of the people involved or connected, another reason is that most people are visual so there are a lot of pix which just look good or repaired by a software became unreal, so just fantasy. Those I do not think as art. You just need to have an eye for art photos, besides the knowledge of your camera and options of composition/light and all. I like macros, most of the time we skip details as in a rush usually, but can be recharging to enjoy nature that close :)
Unfortunately I do not have too much on file, will look into it, Im very new here (less than 24h), like this forum.
Hopefully keep in touch,
B
Of course photography can be art, you are using raw materials there too! it can be also created from your heart and mind, with a lot of passion, which of course can be seen on the photo. Maybe you missed to see really good ones yet. Not just a photo exhibition closest to your place or just a series made by a friend.
You need to be at the right place at the right moment using the right point of view and the right distance and zoom and lights and composition, colours, shadows, shapes, to impress people or to disappoint them or to generate any special feeling, or just to show them how you see the world. Photography can be a piece of art. Lots of bad ones existing though, but most of them because they are the memory of the people involved or connected, another reason is that most people are visual so there are a lot of pix which just look good or repaired by a software became unreal, so just fantasy. Those I do not think as art. You just need to have an eye for art photos, besides the knowledge of your camera and options of composition/light and all. I like macros, most of the time we skip details as in a rush usually, but can be recharging to enjoy nature that close :)
Unfortunately I do not have too much on file, will look into it, Im very new here (less than 24h), like this forum.
Hopefully keep in touch,
B
You just gave me an idea - Will try it in a Poll (Food is Art?)
The ability to take a perfect photograph is an art in itself.
Whether anyone else appreciates it for example is another matter.
Say for example two snow leppards playing in the snow, thousands of feet above ground level.
The sheer hard work to even be in the position to take that photograph would be astonishing, never mind composing the shot, capturing the moment and then have the technical ability to do it.
Photography is most definitely an art if done well.
Whether anyone else appreciates it for example is another matter.
Say for example two snow leppards playing in the snow, thousands of feet above ground level.
The sheer hard work to even be in the position to take that photograph would be astonishing, never mind composing the shot, capturing the moment and then have the technical ability to do it.
Photography is most definitely an art if done well.
RobbieM: The ability to take a perfect photograph is an art in itself.
Whether anyone else appreciates it for example is another matter.
Say for example two snow leppards playing in the snow, thousands of feet above ground level.
The sheer hard work to even be in the position to take that photograph would be astonishing, never mind composing the shot, capturing the moment and then have the technical ability to do it.
Photography is most definitely an art if done well.
Whether anyone else appreciates it for example is another matter.
Say for example two snow leppards playing in the snow, thousands of feet above ground level.
The sheer hard work to even be in the position to take that photograph would be astonishing, never mind composing the shot, capturing the moment and then have the technical ability to do it.
Photography is most definitely an art if done well.
I think so too. I love black and white photography, particularly of war zones...they are so moving and real.
Anyway, some of the photos here are real works of art.
buzzy: Yes, but you can use tools and different processes to create a piece of art work with a photograph. So a photo can become a piece of art work.
Greta Question,,,this has been debated up hill and down dale.
For myself,,,,I create things,,from wood and metal. I have an extensive metal machine shop in my garage and I'm often asked to "create" a compromise,,a copy,,an idea.
I use raw materials for my work.
Men when they see the what I can do and the machines I have go "wow",,,and want to know whatI can make.
Most women do not see the possibilities,,just the swarf and the smell....in other words,,each to their own,,beauty in the eye..yeah?
I love taking photo's.
I use an instrument,,a camera and lens.
I search for interesting subjects,,no different to a painter, sculpter or free thinking machinest,,(Yes,, I sculp metal in a way.)
The end results are colourful and please people.
Providing the picture has a certain "something",,,not a snapshot.
Snapshots are really a good representation of the subject..(person,,place,,whatever.)with the wow factor.
I believe I can create a situation by correct use of the camera and patience with the subject to bring out it's best.
I therefore say,,,good photography with good subjects are "ART".
GoodHeartforYou: This is something I had a discussion about with some college friends about 30 years ago who claimed their pictures were art.
My View: A photograph is not art.
Art is something one creates essentially from "raw materials" , such as a painting or sculpture. Art is also created from your heart and mind - such as a Song or a Poem.
My View: A photograph is not art.
Art is something one creates essentially from "raw materials" , such as a painting or sculpture. Art is also created from your heart and mind - such as a Song or a Poem.
Anything can be an art ..even a meaningful thought
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I think you're stuck on one detail!!
At the end of the day, beauty's in the eyes of the beholder. Equally what art is, and is not, are up to the beholder too.
We're all trying to convince you!! I think we should just let you alone. We've made our points, you've made yours. I must say that I find your arguments compelling. It's just that for *me* personally, I had that very same argument in my head a decade ago. I'm happy with what I view photography to be now.
Finally, I think that you might be caught on an 'intellectual' concept, wanting to define something, which doesn't really need to be defined, in fairness it does not.
- Is photography art?
- Then what is art?
- Who's responsible *FOR* the art?
- *IS* it human-kind?
- Or is it something else?? Muses or whoever/whatever?
- And then, how much credit goes to who?
- Who IS the creator OF the art? Man or Muse?
- Man ultimately, did not create the substances which create the paint, the brush, the marble, the canvas, paper or instrument.
So at what point do you start and stop attributing credit, thereby defining what is art? And thereby classing one 'art' as true art, and another as something which was already there...
On and on the questions could go.
Does a definition, or having a classification system, enhance one's enjoyment of the thing itself?? Does it? I'm only asking!!
"A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet"
(Okay, so as not to be a total hypocrite, I REALLY will shutup now, and not make any more counter-points. Respect to your thoughts though.)