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Originally Posted by garinda
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.
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Originally Posted by Studio25
But in my opinion, neither of those styles are "art" - which was, after all, the original question.
Pressing the shutter release at the right moment just shows you have good timing or an eye for what will make a visually pleasing picture. That's why I differentiated between "art" and "artistic".
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That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject. It's not art, but can be artistic. And if photos have been played with (I don't mean just sharpening or brightening etc) then that takes them out of photography and towards art - not necessarily good art!
I never take "posed" pictures and rarely take people at all. Buildings are my favourite subject, always been interested in architecture, my dad was an architect. My photos are all on the computer, not the walls.
Regarding what's on my walls, not a lot at the moment as we are doing a complete refurb of the house, but I have several boxes of pictures that have graced the walls of previous houses we have lived in. I have one photo that might be called artistic - the comet Hale Bopp in the night sky above Stonehenge - a leaving present from a friend when we moved from that area in 2000.
Most of my other good stuff comes from junk or charity shops, including Maundy Grange. I have 40 or 50 antique topographical prints plus another dozen or so of crabs and lobsters in anatomical detail out of a Victorian science book which live in my loo. Also a dozen or so original watercolours, smallish ones, picked up in charity shops, plus one of York and a couple of prints all done by a friend of Richard's. Some old maps, and a large antique fox hunting print worth about £100. And a huge print of an owl by Edward Lear, again worth quite a bit. Both from charity shops.
I also have lots and lots of postcards in clip frames, of paintings from art galleries, old photos of Accy and other places, plus images from birthday cards etc, just pictures that I like. No framed photos of people, can't bear them, but some collages of old family photos and joky photos of Richard and some of us together.
I just like my walls to be covered - I also have about a hundred plates and saucers still in boxes waiting to be unpacked. And yes we have lots of wall space in a four storey house!