Comments on: Is it still art? https://www.photography.ca/blog/2009/04/07/is-it-still-art/ Photography podcast blog and forum Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ed https://www.photography.ca/blog/2009/04/07/is-it-still-art/comment-page-1/#comment-176445 Ed Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:43:49 +0000 http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=312#comment-176445 Well, if you ask me (and it seems like you’re asking me), it definitely has some craft to it, in that the image is properly lit and nicely exposed, and nicely placed within the frame, etc. But it has no meaning, and neither invokes nor provokes (aside from hormones). In other words, it’s pretty enough, but it doesn’t say anything, so it’s no more “artistic” than a nicely woven basket.

However, sometimes the “art” arrives with the context. As-is, there is little context, but if this were part of a larger body of work that did *say something* then it might be closer to being art. But as is, it’s just a pretty picture.

(We could, of course, go on for pages about this…)

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