Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/28

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Subject: Re: Ralph Gibson--Leica photographer
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 21:29:20 -0400

At 09:28 PM 28-09-97 -0400, you wrote:
[snip]
>the easiest way to answer that question is look at books by Ansel Adams,
>Edward Weston, etc. Compare their work to the work of the legendary
>photojournalists like Capa, Eisenstadt, Salgado, or Mark Ellen Mark. In
>studying those works you'll begin to formulate an answer that means
>something to you, not one provided by someone else. If someone held a
>gun to my head I would just say, fine art would be representational,
>stressing form, while documentary and photojournalism would stress
>content.

I had a photography teacher who considered himself a fine-art documentary
photographer.  In fact, I would consider all of the names you mentioned
above to be fine-art photographers.  Just don't ask me to define it! 

Dan C.