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by CWuestefeld
3933 days ago
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As it happens, on Sunday I posted a photo to my photography club's G+ page. Another member noted the location, and replied with another photo she'd taken months ago of the exact same subject, standing maybe 15 feet from where I'd taken my photo. Although we know that the subject of both photos are the same, what's interesting is that to a first approximation, they appear to be pictures of entirely different things. We were commenting how radically different can be the interpretation of two different artists when seeing the same thing. The error that the OP makes is that what makes the photo is what you're taking a picture of. At least in the art of photography, that's barely the beginning of it. A photograph is something that the artist creates, not something that he takes of a particular thing. |
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To be pedantic, it can be either.
I do hobby photography that I take fairly seriously ( http://gmcbay.com/ ), but sometimes I really just take a snapshot of a thing just to document that thing, without thinking about the lighting or the composition or anything -- just want to post it up on ebay or facebook or whatever for illustration, not trying to have it be "art".
Many (probably most?) photographs are in the "taken" group as opposed to the "created", I'd think.