Comments on: Discuss: Is Photography Art?

By: red

red — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:10:50 +0000

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By: German

German — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:36:24 +0000

“For example, I dont think of Jackson Pollock as art.. many do.”
Can you explain why?

By: Sean Galbraith

Sean Galbraith — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:41:45 +0000

I’m a “fine art” photographer, and a photography gallery owner. I think photography definitely can be art, though I don’t think of myself as a artist or what I produce as art. “Art” is a qualification that others, if you’re good enough and lucky enough, that others will ascribe to your work. But it most certainly can achieve that level.

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On Art(s) And Craft(s) | PixelatedImage Blog — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:57:34 +0000

[...] buddy RC started me thinking about this topic again when he posted something on his blog about whether photography is or is not art. I replied, as did a few others. Pleasantly it did not descend to the usual name-calling and [...]

By: Eric E. Anderson

Eric E. Anderson — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:51:01 +0000

It’s not art _because_ it’s a photograph. But, a photograph most certainly can be art. It all depends on the photographer.

Signed,
A Contributing Photographer to Farmboy Finearts… and dare I say, artist.

By: Janine Smith

Janine Smith — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:05:12 +0000

Of course it’s art. It has a frame around it, doesn’t it?

By: danny kneip

danny kneip — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:10:31 +0000

had a similar conversation with a friend about what makes a movie good or bad. his argument is that all movies are art, and that it is only good if YOU think it is.
i have problems putting “cutthroat island” and “citizen kane” under the same category of “art”.
likewise, my dad, who barely knows how to operate his still camera, is not creating art with every photograph.
it can be learned, yes, but it’s not all art. just like last night’s game – that was not a technical foul on kobe, but they called it anyway.
i believe artists do not want to be grouped in the same vein with “cutthroat island” or my dad’s photos (no offense to my dad or geena davis, of course).

By: anita

anita — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Amazingly, 50 people shooting in the same location with similar equipment often come back with very different images.

Sometimes people value “art” according to the price it commands. As I watch my daughter create, I understand that “art” is what makes your heart sing. So, for many of us, photography is art.

By: Bill Guy

Bill Guy — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:19:28 +0000

“Art is not just somebody’s Name”

By: Terry Reinert

Terry Reinert — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:56:55 +0000

One of the discussions that I had my Software Engineering 1 masters course was whether software engineering and programming is an art or a science. Long story short, my answer was that it is a mix of both because it does have characteristics of both.

Now to look at photography from a “is it art or a snap shot” is kind of similar. It is a mix of both. Now how much that mix is all depends on the person who is operating the camera and their motives behind the image. Are the images that these 16 year old girls take of themselves drinking beer and post them on MySpace art? Yes… about 1% art and 99% stupid. I am a photographer and I consider myself an artist. But is every photo I take art? Yes, to some degree or other. Those quick snapshots I take of my daughter opening Christmas presents or hunting for Easter Eggs is art but much more to the “snap shot” side of the scale. The HDR shots I take of the sunrise or the shots I take of a model at a photo shoot… those are more towards the art side of the scale.

I really don’t think about it. I either take a photo or I create an image. It all depends on what I am pressing the shutter button for. But regardless, every photo is both art and a snap shot… just at varying degrees of each.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:00:03 +0000

Scetching can be learned just as photography can be.

By: David duChemin

David duChemin — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:54:07 +0000

Photography is a craft; the result of which may – or may not – be art, but I suspect that’s not ours to evaluate. Concern about whether it is or isn’t art is often a smokescreen – it distracts from the business at hand – getting down to work and mastering our craft. Preoccupation with making “art” is the best barrier to actually creating something that one day might be considered so. Or the wine went to my head and I’m full of crap. Could go either way