Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It would be hard to define fine art photography solely by limiting your = view to representational images of landscapes. As with painting one = would not limit their knowledge to only the luminary landscape painters = of the nineteenth century and exclude, even if you understand or enjoy = Jackson Pollack, as a definition of fine art in painting. The fine art world of photography is as broad as is the field of = painting including many approaches and would include Mary Ellen Mark, = Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson as well as Man Ray, Philip Jones Griffiths, = Michiko Kon and many others. I don't know what is fine art. I know that publications such as = Aperture, DoubleTake and others show and discuss the photographic work = being done today and of the past. After all I do not think society can = explain the meaning of fine art when it tries to describe other art form = using Grandma Moses and Andy Warhol as sole examples. Art is not easily described and codified but it is something worth = exploring and discussing. I know this is not on topic,i.e., Leica's, = however some fine art photographers do use the magic box we all seem to = enjoy. I hope we do not abandon this thread. Steven