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Originally Posted by mobertol
I am of the opposite opinion -the best photos are often the most unplanned, capturing a fleeting expression on a face for example -art has to have some sponteneity to transmit emotions. Set up and planned is often staged and unfeeling. My best photographs of my god-daughter, and I have taken a lot over the years as she is a lovely model, are the ones I take when she doesn't know and her expression is natural and not posed.
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Well I'm more in agreement with Studio25.
There's good, and bad photography, and some of it can be artistic.
It all comes down to how we define 'art'.
Art is subjective.
I do think some of the surrealist photographers in the thirties onwards, used the medium to produce work that could have the label 'art' attached to their output. Using it in ways other than to record in two dimensions what existed in reality.
Flash, bang, wallop.
I am a camera.
But am I a living work of art?