Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 16, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Chris Crawford wrote: > I agree with your bitterness over expensive dead sharks, but I have to > disagree with your statement about "by the fact it has to have a name". > That is plain wrong. All forms of photography have names, and always have. > Commercial Photography, Portrait Photography, Photojournalism, Fashion > Photography, Architectural Photography, Astrophotography, Wildlife > Photography....I could go on and on. The notion, which I see repeated > often on web forums, that fine art photography is somehow a fraud because > it "Has a name" is simply a lie, designed to defame those who do > photography as art and devalue that work. Agreed. And as we consider all those "named" forms of photography we can readily observe where the line blurs between Fine Art Photography and Fine Art Landscape Photography Fine Art Documentary Photography Fine Art Conceptual Photography etc. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist