Feb 23, 2006, 17:41
Could there be a type or genre of photography that we could label as "artistic photography"?
For example, a sports photographer would fit Craig's description of "recording" - the pics might be WOW, but the primary purpose is recording the events at a particular point in time.
When you move beyond simply capturing and documenting a scene - i.e. creating your interpretation of a scene through various techniques (composition, lighting, post processing etc.) then you start to venture into the realm of the artist...
What makes it difficult to classify is that artistic techniques can cross boundaries of all different types and genres of photography, so that even travel photographers (I would classify mainly as documenting) can zoom on detail or create beautiful abstracts, such as what you'd see in national geographic...
For example, a sports photographer would fit Craig's description of "recording" - the pics might be WOW, but the primary purpose is recording the events at a particular point in time.
When you move beyond simply capturing and documenting a scene - i.e. creating your interpretation of a scene through various techniques (composition, lighting, post processing etc.) then you start to venture into the realm of the artist...
What makes it difficult to classify is that artistic techniques can cross boundaries of all different types and genres of photography, so that even travel photographers (I would classify mainly as documenting) can zoom on detail or create beautiful abstracts, such as what you'd see in national geographic...