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Subject: [Leica] What is the definition of "Fine Art Photography"?
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 13:59:53 +0100
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Not quite. Fine Art is art that rich people collect, and poor people 
rob, so that they can fence it to middlemen who know that they can find 
a buyer for it.

The first large auction house started selling photos in the early 1970s, 
but photos had been collected for years in families, and certain 
collections were regarded as very fine, just as certain photographers 
were regarded as above the common or garden shutter pressers.
People started to pay a little more for these photographers' work and 
their interesting, glamorous, adventurous or tragic lifestyles. This 
bigging up attracted both the interest of art entrepreneurs and critics 
and media coverage expanded the market exponentially. The constant media 
exposure and the vested interest of new art pushers ensured the 
persistent redefining of the judgement criteria of an evolving market by 
a coterie of people who have an interest in profiting from a beautiful 
and inventive artistic medium. Oh look, here is someone new and 
wonderful doing new and wonderful things, don't caught out and show your 
ignorance of their genius, be wise and buy their stuff now!!

It echoes the approach to the painting market.
What are you at,
Mr Basquiat?
Your suggestive dichotomy
More frontal lobotomy
To me?? Just tat.

Douglas




On 27/05/2021 05:14, Doug Herr via LUG wrote:
> My definition - which I expect is not widely accepted - is photography 
> that has to be explained to be understood.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/>
>
>
>> On May 26, 2021, at 6:58 PM, Stasys Petravicius via LUG <lug at 
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