Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.