Isn't it a shame that photography is not universally recognised as an Art?
People think of photography as a routine mechanical thing they sometimes do on holiday (or at parties with their mobile phone). This is a real pity. It is a bit like regarding painting as something routine or low level because as an activity it forms part of home decorating, or because the last time you did it you were at primary school!
The range of cheap cameras with brilliant optics, the advent of digital technology, and the wide spread of image manipulation software means that all can cheaply take up the tools and create! That so few, relatively speaking, actually do much more than record they were 'there' at some holiday locale seems to me to be a real pity, and to be a direct consequence of an unwillingness to accept that creativity is not confined to horse-hair brushes and chisels, but flows from the brain and the eye!
They say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" for good reason. Appreciation of art in any form is highly subjective. One person's art may be another persons trash. Good photography is fine art because it reflects the photographer's way of seeing, and way of framing what he/she sees. Then the viewer must be able to interpret this, so its a two-way street. I think people trained in visual arts can appreciate other visual arts, including photography, more because they have had training in looking and seeing and trying to interpret the artists intention for framing what they see the way they do. This can also include digital photography and the manipulation of a digital image.
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