[Leica] Is photography art?

[Bill Pearce]

An interesting take on this. I have found almost all portrait and wedding 
photographers to be the Norman Rockwells of photography, but then again, I 
find painted portraits in whatever medium to be wanting.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Rabiner
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 2:48 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Is photography art?

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.


On 4/6/15 12:30 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

>
> 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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>
>
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