[Leica] Is photography art?

[George Lottermoser]

On Apr 6, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> You've got portrait photography and photographers, commercial and fine art.
> Three basic types at least. You'd think there'd be no overlap but there is.
> All the work Avedon shot for fashion magazines ended up on the walls at the
> MET in '78 Before that he had a retrospective at the Smithsonian Institution
> in 1962.  I think that may have been the thing which changed everything.
> But it was work not aimed at the "gallery market" but trying to please and
> art director. Nowadays its a very well known kind of thing.

and the "painters" throughout art history
also worked at the behest of "art directors"
whether in the form of the Roman Catholic Church, the Medici family, Monarchs, etc.

The plutocrats and aristocracy "commissioned" their portraits.
Music was composed and made to serve religions and rituals;
whether in churches, synagogues, temples or at the direction of aboriginal healers.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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