Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/06

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Subject: [Leica] Is photography art?
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:30:32 -0500
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On Apr 5, 2015, at 10:18 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:

> In my experience, it is only amateur "Sunday Painters" that speak 
> derogatorily of photographers whose work can be seen as artistic. I 
> remember the day when dealers, curators and dilettantes spoke ill of 
> photography, but the people that I know that are working full time as 
> "real" artists don't feel that way at all. It may be that the old fools 
> have died off.

More appropriate and interesting questions:

What qualities need to be present in an object to label it a piece of Fine 
Art?
What qualities need to be present in a body of work to label the producer a 
Fine Artist?

These two questions would be equally valid whether discussing
Painting, Sculpting, Writing, Composing, Playing an Instrument, 
Photographing, Dancing, Choreographing, or any other "Art."

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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