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01/05/2006 09:49:38 AM · #1
This is part of a quote from another thread:

"Photography is, in my view, an art form, but it is most comfortable, and most widely appreciated, as a documentary art form, not as a graphic art form. Now, I accept that that's just one point of view, but I think you may have to accept that it's the dominant point of view, in the DPC community and pretty much everywhere else. Look at National Geographic, for example."

I am curious about what others believe at DPC believe. Most of the commercial art galleries I go to see here feature very abstract photography.
01/05/2006 09:56:30 AM · #2
I think it's a good mixture of both abstract & documentary here. Although, I agree with alot, especially with the challenges, seems to be more abstract.
I enjoy taking more documentary type photos, although since I've joined I am learning more about the abstract and trying to see if I am capable of this.
I also must say that I think that the variey here, as elsewhere, cannot be summed up into 2 catagories. There are so many different preferences.
01/05/2006 10:30:04 AM · #3
I must say prefer I like the documentary kind.
01/05/2006 10:30:15 AM · #4
Most of the photography I see is in the news, not in galleries.
01/06/2006 10:25:43 AM · #5
I suspect a lot of people are still getting used to photography as an artistic medium. And a lot of people don't appreciate abstract art, let alone abstract photographic art. A few months back I shot some abstracts in a lift where I was working. Some colleagues saw me shooting there and were mystified that there was anything to photograph in a lift. The comments I got once I brought the results in ranged from "wow" to "what the...?" to (lots of) "what is it?".

No doubt the first abstract painters faced the same sort of reactions.
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