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03/23/2003 07:19:03 PM · #1 |
Are Landscape Photographers Artists or Technicians?
Do they create Art or do they just record the art that already exists?
I'm asking because my favorite photographs are Landscapes, and I've got a couple of shots that I am happy with, but I don't have an artistic bone in my body; rather I feel like a Technician on an assignment to document the art that Nature created.
What do you think?
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03/23/2003 07:26:42 PM · #2 |
Artist, with out a doubt.
I'm a landscape photographer at heart as well, but I think it takes a special vision to see what nature has created in a new an interesting light.
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03/23/2003 07:29:10 PM · #3 |
Good artists are usually good technicians: good technicians are not necessarily good artists.
Another point: did Rembrandt just paint what was already there?
Ed
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03/23/2003 08:11:33 PM · #4 |
I genuinely good landscape photographer is certainly an artist. However, some landscapes lend themselves so well to being photographed that a person might produce impressive work without really participating in any artistic process (in other words, take snapshots). So it's possible to take decent landscape shots without producing art, but the opposite is definately possible as well. I think you alluded to it in your original post. If you're really doing nothing but capturing then it's not art. But if by choosing how to capture, you're creating something unique, you are an artist. That's the difference between those photos of the grand canyon your aunt passed around at the last family gathering and something like this (//noahgrey.com/photolog/00001137.shtml).
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03/23/2003 09:08:18 PM · #5 |
Could be either artists or technicians. But the really good stuff will be art!
David
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03/23/2003 09:42:33 PM · #6 |
| Anyone who would refer to Ansel Adams or Galen Rowell (as two prominent examples) as anything other than "artists" would probably find a chilly welcome in almost any photographic forum... |
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03/23/2003 10:09:21 PM · #7 |
| Wouldn't a photographer or almost any "artist" for that matter be more of a scientist? That's how I always thought of it. |
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