Re: Selling Stock Photography What is art?

5:19 AM |

I remember the old saying that photography is not art, but art is not photography. So it is maybe more true than you thought of when you wrote it that your work is art, photography is your tool to create art. With photography we can also create many other things, as news, stories, information, records, etc.

A paint brush can be used to paint the lines on a road, not exactly art, but also a Rembrandt. A pen can be used to write an address, not exactly poetry, and think on.

The secondary question then become, what is art. For me it is what I enjoy, then I don't give a toss about the efforts it took to create it or what anyone else thinks.

An analogy about those sharp photos. If people tell you what a brilliant website you have, get rid of it instantly. Usually it is in Flash. You want them to notice your photos, not the website, sorry, your art I mean. :-)

On 21-Jan-2012 8:54 PM, Daniel Walsh wrote:

As a photographer I feel my work is pure art....I don't point and shot people at parties.....all the effort in pre-shoot composition and post editing takes time tallent, which i consider a true art form. I just find it frustrating when the 'avereage Joe' skims through my work with no apperrant appriciation of the time and effort that goes into the final product.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown

--- On Fri, 1/20/12, angiephotographer <angieknostphoto@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: angiephotographer <angieknostphoto@hotmail.com>
Subject: Selling Stock Photography What is art?
To: selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012, 7:14 PM

This talk about what is art and what isn't reminds me of a kind of off topic story I will share...

I did one art show in my life. Didn't sell anything. The photos I presented were mainly of rock musicians performing or 'rocker lifestyle' type of subjects.

The exhibitor next to me was presenting his black and white, out of focus pictures of women bound, gagged and tied up. He looked over and sneered at me, and I heard him comment out loud to someone, while clearly looking my way, that "Some of this crap here isn't even art"....

Make what you will of that story. Carry on....