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churchfcrules 28-08-2012 00:13
Do you class photography as art, and if so do you have anybodys work on your wall?
 
i have recentley started posting some pics on accyweb, and see that the "today in pictures" thread is quite popular, but do you consider photography art? there are a lot that don't, and also if it is "digitally enhanced, does that take away or add to its value "as art"

also what artist do people have on their walls if any, i have a couple of k mellings framed prints and a small watercolour of pendle, that i picked up in sabden antiques a few years ago, but they arent photos, so do you? and i dont mean the canvases that you can get from department stores with flowers on or cityscapes, something with the artist name on for it to count.

kestrelx 28-08-2012 00:24
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I've got a couple of my own photos on the wall. It is art if it's done with artistic intent using lighting and so on.

I have a LS Lowry on the wall but I don't know what it's called, that came to me by accident - I was given it. It has his name on, it's not an original it's a print on board.

churchfcrules 28-08-2012 00:27
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1011049)
I've got a couple of my own photos on the wall. It is art if it's done with artistic intent using lighting and so on.

I have a LS Lowry on the wall but I don't know what it's called, that came to me by accident - I was given it. It has the name on.
so if you are walking along with your camera, and capture a moment of time, with no forethought into the image, is it art?

kestrelx 28-08-2012 00:50
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Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1011050)
so if you are walking along with your camera, and capture a moment of time, with no forethought into the image, is it art?
I don't think a photo would be that good anyway if you didn't put some thought into it! But then what if you waved it around at some colored lights so you got squiggles on the photo - is that art?

garinda 28-08-2012 05:04
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Photography could be used to produce something akin to art, whatever that is.

In this case art seems to be defined as something you'd hang on your walls.

Does that mean wallpaper can be considered art?

Mine's block printed, then coloured by hand, and each roll is initaled.

Is it art?

I'd take a photograph of it.

Though having an artistic bent I have a fear some might steal my photograph, and display it in their homes.

maxthecollie 28-08-2012 08:27
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I class photography as an art. I am an amatuer only just starting to do more photos as you can see on my posts. I have 2 prints on my lounge wall of our last dog Gyp from the the originals by local artists Attachment 24355 Attachment 24357
No 1 is from an original done in oils by a Blackburn Artist Peter Worswick
No2 is from an original done in acrylic by a good friend of mine Peter Sherburne.(The artist who presented the Queen with one of his paintings on her recent visit to Accrington)
Peter has since painted a lamb with Gyp with a lamb see gyp3
Gyp was my last dog who we lost to cancer.

MargaretR 28-08-2012 09:31
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I have 8 original oil paintings, but only 4 are hung because 3 of them are large and I don't have the wall space (unless I want the place to look like a gallery).

They are all landscapes, done by a friend of my father - Ernie Shaw - in the 70s.

He wasn't/isn't famous, but he did once have an exhibition at the Haworth.

I don't know their value now, but in 1980 they were valued as part of my ex husbands attempt to extract money from me (along with the valuation of all household items).
The big ones were £75 each and the small ones £25 each.

The man who was sent to value them had heard of Ernie Shaw and was impressed.

I keep them for sentimental reasons because I have had them since the 70s.

Studio25 28-08-2012 10:53
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Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1011050)
so if you are walking along with your camera, and capture a moment of time, with no forethought into the image, is it art?
I think that even with a lot of forethought, photography is not necessarily art. I consider a small proportion of my work to be artistic, but not actual art.

In my opinion, for a photo to be art, it needs to be planned in advance with some sort of pre or post processing in mind - whether using filters, dark room techniques or photoshop. But even then, that doesn't necessarily make it art. On my wall, I've got a firework display done in Whitby. It passes all my criteria for "art" - it was planned in advance, took time to get right, was always going to be photoshopped. If it is art, it's not good art.

mobertol 28-08-2012 11:09
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Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1011050)
so if you are walking along with your camera, and capture a moment of time, with no forethought into the image, is it art?
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1011056)
Photography could be used to produce something akin to art, whatever that is.

In this case art seems to be defined as something you'd hang on your walls.
For me photography is definitely an art-form in its own right.

I get a bi-monthly magazine -pretentiously called Intelligent Life (I like to kid myself!) it's part of The Economist group, which features fantastic photography of all kinds -portraits, wild-life, architecture...you name it. May be worth looking up on Google -I expect you can see a lot of it. I like looking at images -the more you look the more you see.

Last year I was teaching a group of older teenagers in preparation for an external council of Europe English exam (PET -Preliminary English Test) - on of the oral exam tasks was to describe a photograph for two minutes. Most could only manage a few seconds as they didn't know how to even look at a photo and see beyond the flat image never mind describe it in English!

As to walking along and just mindlessly taking shots -that doesn't happen -you mentally frame what you see to make it pleasing to your eye -even if you do it subconsciously. So as Garinda rightly says - we are categorising it into something to hang on our walls the moment we take it even if we don't realise it.

Why are so many of us keen to put our own photographs on the photo threads here? We are all in our own way trying to share our emotions through what we've seen - perhaps it isn't great art but it is our own take on it.

On my walls I have some of my own photos but they are old ones from the days of my reflex camera -when I used to get things printed -since going digital 10 years ago they are just on the computer and I never print them.

In my kitchen I have a pin-board full of cards, postcards etc of places and things that mean a lot to me -most are cards I sent home from the Lakes, there's a lovely Lowry reprint card and also a beautiful photo by Tommy Martin of Water Nook House in Howtown -one of my most treasured places. Look him up on Fine Art Landscape Photography by Tommy Martin - Tommy Martin Photography and you won't be disappointed -esecially for his shots of the lakes. He has a great gallery too.

mobertol 28-08-2012 11:14
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Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 1011097)
I think that even with a lot of forethought, photography is not necessarily art. I consider a small proportion of my work to be artistic, but not actual art.

In my opinion, for a photo to be art, it needs to be planned in advance with some sort of pre or post processing in mind - whether using filters, dark room techniques or photoshop. But even then, that doesn't necessarily make it art. On my wall, I've got a firework display done in Whitby. It passes all my criteria for "art" - it was planned in advance, took time to get right, was always going to be photoshopped. If it is art, it's not good art.
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.

Less 28-08-2012 11:16
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Some Photographs are works of art, others can be classed alongside the Turner Prize unmade bed as pure bunk, but most are just happy snaps that don't mean much except perhaps to the taker and a few friends and family.
:)

mobertol 28-08-2012 11:17
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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1011084)
I have 8 original oil paintings, but only 4 are hung because 3 of them are large and I don't have the wall space (unless I want the place to look like a gallery).

They are all landscapes, done by a friend of my father - Ernie Shaw - in the 70s.

He wasn't/isn't famous, but he did once have an exhibition at the Haworth.

I don't know their value now, but in 1980 they were valued as part of my ex husbands attempt to extract money from me (along with the valuation of all household items).
The big ones were £75 each and the small ones £25 each.

The man who was sent to value them had heard of Ernie Shaw and was impressed.

I keep them for sentimental reasons because I have had them since the 70s.
Their value to you is obviously higher than any evaluation -you can't put a price on sentiment:)

churchfcrules 28-08-2012 14:07
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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.
have to agree with this, i can't stand , "posed" people photos, they capture the time, but not the moment, if you know what i mean.

we all do them ,but the candid ones always make the better picture, but "technically", not the best photo.

garinda 28-08-2012 17:16
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Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1011104)
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.
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?

annesingleton 28-08-2012 17:41
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I think that photography can be classed as art if the photographer uses the medium to express his or her creativity.
On my walls throughout the house I have quite a lot of Gustav Klimt prints - I've admired his work for many years and went to an exhibition of some of his work in Liverpool a few years ago - in real life his art is stunning.

churchfcrules 28-08-2012 18:51
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Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 1011149)
I think that photography can be classed as art if the photographer uses the medium to express his or her creativity.
On my walls throughout the house I have quite a lot of Gustav Klimt prints - I've admired his work for many years and went to an exhibition of some of his work in Liverpool a few years ago - in real life his art is stunning.
just been looking at some Gustav Klimt, and afraid its not for me, thats not to say i dont appreciate it, but it does nowt for me.

but thats the thing with art, what doesnt reach 1 , can reach a thousand in a thousand different ways, i guess

Studio25 28-08-2012 19:56
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Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1011127)
...i can't stand , "posed" people photos, they capture the time, but not the moment, if you know what i mean.

we all do them ,but the candid ones always make the better picture, but "technically", not the best photo.
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".

susie123 28-08-2012 20:16
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1011145)
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 (Post 1011196)
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".
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!

shillelagh 28-08-2012 20:59
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I don't think a photo would be that good anyway if you didn't put some thought into it! But then what if you waved it around at some colored lights so you got squiggles on the photo - is that art?

what like this? :p:p:p and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... the first two is local and three and four are not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...

susie123 28-08-2012 21:03
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what like this? :p:p:p and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... ones local and ones not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...
Wow Jen... you are quite the artist...;)

shillelagh 28-08-2012 21:06
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Wow Jen... you are quite the artist...;)

aww thank you susie ... :p:p:p

churchfcrules 28-08-2012 21:23
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what like this? :p:p:p and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... the first two is local and three and four are not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...
i am sure some would argue, that what you have created, is art, just the same people would argue isn't, i think my original question should have concentrated more on the medium of photography, rather than the content

just as some would argue about a jackson pollock, or the unmade bed

as for where they are your joking right lol :) havent got a clue

MargaretR 28-08-2012 21:35
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The Truth is out There - in Rising Bridge ;)

shillelagh 29-08-2012 14:12
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no one willing to have a guess .... will admit 3 & 4 was took through the window of the car i was travelling in coming back from bangor on the motorway ... its actually the oil refinery in cheshire ... well part of it ...

but 1 & 2 .. is took in hyndburn ... was took this year and i was with 2 other accywebbers at the time ...:D:D:D

kestrelx 29-08-2012 14:30
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what like this? :p:p:p and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... the first two is local and three and four are not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...
Ha ha! ;) Yes that's what I meant, I had some of me doing that with the moon and I can't find them now. It is art; a simpler form of what Pollock did, he did it with paint - you did this with light.

Is this video I took art? :D

Mute Swan trying to eat my trainer! - YouTube

shillelagh 29-08-2012 14:41
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its a case of not managing to keep your hand steady while taking the picture .....:rolleyes::D:D:D theyd upped my medication a few days beforehand .... :rolleyes:

susie123 29-08-2012 14:43
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its a case of not managing to keep your hand steady while taking the picture .....:rolleyes::D:D:D theyd upped my medication a few days beforehand .... :rolleyes:
Ha ha Jen I have that problem a lot at the moment - good job I can delete most of my pics...

mobertol 29-08-2012 14:44
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no one willing to have a guess .... will admit 3 & 4 was took through the window of the car i was travelling in coming back from bangor on the motorway ... its actually the oil refinery in cheshire ... well part of it ...

but 1 & 2 .. is took in hyndburn ... was took this year and i was with 2 other accywebbers at the time ...:D:D:D
I thought it might be the roof of a petrol station and the sign.

shillelagh 29-08-2012 14:47
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Ha ha Jen I have that problem a lot at the moment - good job I can delete most of my pics...

thats why i like the digital camera .. if it had been a film one you'd have to take the film in to boots or supasnaps or wherever .. and pay to have em developed .. and wait a week ... with a digital one you can look at em and if theyve turned out rubbish .. then throw em in the recycle bin ... :D:D:D

shillelagh 29-08-2012 14:52
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I thought it might be the roof of a petrol station and the sign.
well you got the right product mobertol ..:D:D:D i went to visit my nephew a couple of years back in bangor and it was dark when we were coming home .. and it was all lit up and sister was driving steadily ... so tried to take the pic ... sis speeded up just as i was taking the pic ... and thats how it came out ... :D no ideas on the first 2 pics ....

mobertol 29-08-2012 14:59
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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?
I shy away from the surreal -find it a bit alarming somehow.

I like more realistic photography which captures the feel of a place or time.

I know that you are artistic, having seen some of your creations on paper and with textiles - the art is in the creation and originality I think. That is something you're born with and can be developed through learning techniques and expressing your own style.

I know I don't have an artistic bone in my body but I have always liked taking photographs and I think about one in every 50 or so of mine could be considered to be artistic perhaps. I have also discovered that when I write I can describe things well so I think I'm probably descriptive in the pictures I take too.

Have just spent an hour hunting out two photos from my "Reflex" days which had got put away in the cellar! they used to be on the walls till we moved here 7 yrs ago -they were still wrapped in newspaper!

Both taken in Brittany in 1997 -i like them and think they are artistic -but perhaps I'm unobjective as it was a particularly memorable holiday!

The portrait is my husband on a beach. The landscape you will recognise, it was taken at 11-30pm just before sunset -no tripod or posing, just flash, bang, wallop!:D I'd just taken a series of pictures of my sons flying kites which also have a nice feel to them for the light i think. As I say perhaps I'm blinded by the memories.:o

susie123 29-08-2012 15:29
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well you got the right product mobertol ..:D:D:D i went to visit my nephew a couple of years back in bangor and it was dark when we were coming home .. and it was all lit up and sister was driving steadily ... so tried to take the pic ... sis speeded up just as i was taking the pic ... and thats how it came out ... :D no ideas on the first 2 pics ....
I think she meant the first two!

Studio25 29-08-2012 16:54
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This sums up "art"...

https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/1...sF2a6AsxA2.jpg

shillelagh 29-08-2012 18:01
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i prefer the bottom one ...:D

davemac 29-08-2012 19:46
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I think photos can be many things, and yes I think they can be classed as art.

If a person has a vision of what a good photo should be, plans, and then waits for the right conditions, for perhaps the right light, or the right sunset, then it is an art, it can be artistic, or can be classed as art. This though has to be determined by the viewer and not the person presenting it.
Also they can be pictorial reminders,(holiday snaps ) or photographic representations of events, (today in pictures ).

garinda 29-08-2012 20:40
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Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 1011326)
Take your point, although not wholly correct.

Graffiti was first exhibited and sold in New York art galleries way back in the early eighties, and the most successful in that field still sell their work for mega bucks.

Perhaps art today should be redefined as 'any old tat the money men think will make them a lot of dosh, as an investment'.

garinda 29-08-2012 20:50
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I shy away from the surreal -find it a bit alarming somehow.
You need to be more adventurous.


Try living living it.


The water's lovely.


Come on in.


Walk on it.


:conny: :jam1: :rose2:

mobertol 29-08-2012 20:56
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You need to be more adventurous.


Try living living it.


The water's lovely.


Come on in.


Walk on it.


:conny: :jam1: :rose2:
Been a while since I thew caution to the winds.

Just need someone to give me their hand perhaps...:D

shillelagh 29-08-2012 20:59
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Been a while since I thew caution to the winds.

Just need someone to give me their hand perhaps...:D

rindy is the chief corrupter on here .. less aint so far behind either ... :D:D:D

mobertol 29-08-2012 21:03
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no one willing to have a guess ....

but 1 & 2 .. is took in hyndburn ... was took this year and i was with 2 other accywebbers at the time ...:D:D:D
Rising Bridge makes me think the McDonalds...or maybe another take.away place...

shillelagh 29-08-2012 21:09
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Rising Bridge makes me think the McDonalds...or maybe another take.away place...

Rising Bridge is in rossendale .... :D

im going to tell you where it is ... its whinney hill road going up from huncoat industrial estate .. i was walking back into accy along burnley road with spugster and lynx1 and mac .. and looked over when we got outside the cemetary and all you could see were the street lights going up ... and tried taking the pic .. and hand shook .. then a car came over the hill going down towards huncoat.. and thats the one thats on its own ... :D thats why its in different places .... :D:D:D

heres all the photos i took that night ... :D

mobertol 29-08-2012 21:12
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1011382)
Rising Bridge is in rossendale .... :D

im going to tell you where it is ... its whinney hill road going up from huncoat industrial estate .. i was walking back into accy with spugster and lynx1 and mac .. and looked over and all you could see were the street lights going up ... and tried taking the pic .. and hand shook .. then a car came over the hill going down towards huncoat.. and thats the one thats on its own ... :D thats why its in different places .... :D:D:D

heres all the photos i took that night ... :D
Thanks -can sleep now that I know -was convinced it was the roof of some place and a sign -mind you I wear progressive lenses!:rolleyes::D

shillelagh 29-08-2012 21:31
Re: Do you class photography as art, and if so do you have anybodys work on your wall
 
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Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1011383)
Thanks -can sleep now that I know -was convinced it was the roof of some place and a sign -mind you I wear progressive lenses!:rolleyes::D

didnt want to be blamed for you having no kip .... :D:D:D

garinda 29-08-2012 22:41
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I once saw an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in London.

Most of the work was hidden away in a room where you had to provide proof you were over eighteen, before you could view it.

If art is something that supposedly makes you think, it certainly did that.

I had no idea you could use a calla lily as a cathetar, before seeing that exhibition of mucky snaps.

:camera8:

mobertol 30-08-2012 07:09
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1011414)
I once saw an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in London.

Most of the work was hidden away in a room where you had to provide proof you were over eighteen, before you could view it.

If art is something that supposedly makes you think, it certainly did that.

I had no idea you could use a calla lily as a cathetar, before seeing that exhibition of mucky snaps.

:camera8:
Sounds interesting to say the least - I expect you managed to sneak in when you were 14;)

I saw the film Fur with Nicole Kidman, where she played photographer Diane Arbus and had a look at her work after it -not really surreal but a difficult reality. Worth looking at and it helped having had an insight into her life in the film, very particular woman. This portfolio of some of her more famous photos is worth perusing. Will see if I can find some of Mr Mapplethorpe's...

DIANE ARBUS - THE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
:camera8:

Less 30-08-2012 08:01
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1011375)
rindy is the chief corrupter on here .. less aint so far behind either ... :D:D:D
Excuse me? I don't remember either Rindy or myself forcing anyone to drink too much absinthe at a certain AccyWeb meet!

There was only one person there that was not only consuming far more than a reasonable amount even demanding the stuff by half pint measures, I don't suppose there's much chance of you remembering who she was though.

A picture of that wouldn't have been art but would have shown someone in her true colours, various shades of green if I recall.

garinda 30-08-2012 09:52
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Originally Posted by Less (Post 1011461)
Excuse me? I don't remember either Rindy or myself forcing anyone to drink too much absinthe at a certain AccyWeb meet!
To be fair, I was chanting 'Down in one, down in one, down in one', as yet another large glass of the evil brew was necked.

:D

shillelagh 30-08-2012 13:14
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1011483)
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Originally Posted by Less (Post 1011461)
Excuse me? I don't remember either Rindy or myself forcing anyone to drink too much absinthe at a certain AccyWeb meet!
To be fair, I was chanting 'Down in one, down in one, down in one', as yet another large glass of the evil brew was necked.

:D
see less .... i was right .... :D:D:D

mobertol 30-08-2012 13:22
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1011519)
see less .... i was right .... :D:D:D
Sounds like a good time was had by all to me:p

shillelagh 30-08-2012 16:50
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it was over 5 years ago and they so dont let me forget it ....:p:p:p

garinda 30-08-2012 17:08
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1011552)
it was over 5 years ago and they so dont let me forget it ....:p:p:p
Yes, and it took three years, two months, for you to get over the hangover.

:D

It was one of the more memorable of the Accy Web meets.

Considering how mental some of the others were, that means it must have been a good one.

:D

cashman 30-08-2012 18:48
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1011552)
it was over 5 years ago and they so dont let me forget it ....:p:p:p
I was drinking in those days n even i was horrified.:eek::D

kestrelx 30-08-2012 19:21
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Again a thread has gone off topic - unless we are asking the question "is vomit!" art?:rolleyes:

Wynonie Harris 30-08-2012 19:25
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1011597)
Again a thread has gone off topic - unless we are asking the question "is vomit!" art?:rolleyes:
Yep, it's called a thread wander. We're quite partial to 'em here on Accyweb. If you don't like it, I suggest you mosey on over to another thread. :)

shillelagh 30-08-2012 21:19
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1011597)
Again a thread has gone off topic - unless we are asking the question "is vomit!" art?:rolleyes:

sorry to upset you kestrel .. i didnt vomit .... :D:D:D i just had one bad hangover, :eek:

MargaretR 30-08-2012 23:56
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1011627)
sorry to upset you kestrel .. i didnt vomit .... :D:D:D i just had one bad hangover, :eek:
I attended that meet - I recall you lost an earring and found true love - a good swap that :D

cashman 31-08-2012 09:32
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1011597)
Again a thread has gone off topic - unless we are asking the question "is vomit!" art?:rolleyes:
Thats what tends to happen when yeh socialise wi folk, but i suppose its summat a "Billy No Mates" may not grasp.:D

mobertol 01-09-2012 13:27
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To get back on thread, thought I'd share the work of a young photographer with local connections. Born in France, her mother is Ossy born and bred - Lauren grew up in Clitheroe from the age of 10 and got her BA in photography at Leeds University a couple of years ago. This is her Flicka work but if you Google her you can find a lot more -particularly her short film work on Vimeo.com as well as her own blog.

It is artistic photography!:)

Lauren

Edit - fixed the link now - Neil

annesingleton 01-09-2012 16:57
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Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1011187)
just been looking at some Gustav Klimt, and afraid its not for me, thats not to say i dont appreciate it, but it does nowt for me.

but thats the thing with art, what doesnt reach 1 , can reach a thousand in a thousand different ways, i guess
Yes you're right, it's up to the individual's taste, but having said that I can't believe you don't like my wonderful Klimt! I think you may need to look at a bit more of his work! (I really am only joking but I absolutely do love his art)! His exhibition in Liverpool moved me to tears and I plan to go to Vienna to see most of the rest of his exhibited stuff.

garinda 01-09-2012 17:22
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Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 1012014)
Yes you're right, it's up to the individual's taste, but having said that I can't believe you don't like my wonderful Klimt! I think you may need to look at a bit more of his work! (I really am only joking but I absolutely do love his art)! His exhibition in Liverpool moved me to tears and I plan to go to Vienna to see most of the rest of his exhibited stuff.
True.

Horses for courses.

Though I'm with you, at the Vienna course.

Fantastic painter.

:)

Restless 01-09-2012 17:55
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I think there is good and bad.

Bad = mine. Not very artistic. I find taking photographs relaxing.

Good = davemac. His photos are amazing. Seen the one of butterfly?

Oh and drinking can be a form of art...i suppose

susie123 01-09-2012 17:57
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Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 1012014)
Yes you're right, it's up to the individual's taste, but having said that I can't believe you don't like my wonderful Klimt! I think you may need to look at a bit more of his work! (I really am only joking but I absolutely do love his art)! His exhibition in Liverpool moved me to tears and I plan to go to Vienna to see most of the rest of his exhibited stuff.
I visited that exhibition in Liverpool but can't say it moved me at all. The trouble with Klimt, like Monet, is that he has become very over-exposed.

cashman 01-09-2012 17:58
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Originally Posted by annesingleton (Post 1012014)
Yes you're right, it's up to the individual's taste, but having said that I can't believe you don't like my wonderful Klimt! I think you may need to look at a bit more of his work! (I really am only joking but I absolutely do love his art)! His exhibition in Liverpool moved me to tears and I plan to go to Vienna to see most of the rest of his exhibited stuff.
Klimt appeals to me,slightly less than me sons art.:eek::D

mobertol 01-09-2012 18:40
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Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1011950)
To get back on thread, thought I'd share the work of a young photographer with local connections. Born in France, her mother is Ossy born and bred - Lauren grew up in Clitheroe from the age of 10 and got her BA in photography at Leeds University a couple of years ago. This is her Flicka work but if you Google her you can find a lot more -particularly her short film work on Vimeo.com as well as her own blog.

It is artistic photography!:)

Lauren

Edit - fixed the link now - Neil
Thanks Neil!! You are a star as always.:)

Studio25 01-09-2012 18:44
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Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1012038)
...The trouble with Klimt, like Monet, is that he has become very over-exposed.
I sometimes have that problem with my photos... :(

mobertol 01-09-2012 18:48
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Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1012038)
The trouble with Klimt, like Monet, is that he has become very over-exposed.
I have unfortunately never seen any of his work in exposition, only photos.

I don't believe he suffers from over-exposure -apart from "The Kiss" most would not recognise his work...

I find it rich and it draws you in -there are also some excellent line drawngs I've seen, very different.


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