Do you class photography as art, and if so do you have anybodys work on your wall?

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by annesingleton

I think that photography can be classed as art if the photographer uses the medium to express his or her creativity.
On my walls throughout the house I have quite a lot of Gustav Klimt prints - I've admired his work for many years and went to an exhibition of some of his work in Liverpool a few years ago - in real life his art is stunning.

just been looking at some Gustav Klimt, and afraid its not for me, thats not to say i dont appreciate it, but it does nowt for me.

but thats the thing with art, what doesnt reach 1 , can reach a thousand in a thousand different ways, i guess

[Studio25]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

...i can't stand , "posed" people photos, they capture the time, but not the moment, if you know what i mean.

we all do them ,but the candid ones always make the better picture, but "technically", not the best photo.

But in my opinion, neither of those styles are "art" - which was, after all, the original question.

Pressing the shutter release at the right moment just shows you have good timing or an eye for what will make a visually pleasing picture. That's why I differentiated between "art" and "artistic".

[susie123]

Originally Posted by garinda

Well I'm more in agreement with Studio25.

There's good, and bad photography, and some of it can be artistic.

It all comes down to how we define 'art'.

Art is subjective.

I do think some of the surrealist photographers in the thirties onwards, used the medium to produce work that could have the label 'art' attached to their output. Using it in ways other than to record in two dimensions what existed in reality.

Originally Posted by Studio25

But in my opinion, neither of those styles are "art" - which was, after all, the original question.

Pressing the shutter release at the right moment just shows you have good timing or an eye for what will make a visually pleasing picture. That's why I differentiated between "art" and "artistic".

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject. It's not art, but can be artistic. And if photos have been played with (I don't mean just sharpening or brightening etc) then that takes them out of photography and towards art - not necessarily good art!

I never take "posed" pictures and rarely take people at all. Buildings are my favourite subject, always been interested in architecture, my dad was an architect. My photos are all on the computer, not the walls.

Regarding what's on my walls, not a lot at the moment as we are doing a complete refurb of the house, but I have several boxes of pictures that have graced the walls of previous houses we have lived in. I have one photo that might be called artistic - the comet Hale Bopp in the night sky above Stonehenge - a leaving present from a friend when we moved from that area in 2000.

Most of my other good stuff comes from junk or charity shops, including Maundy Grange. I have 40 or 50 antique topographical prints plus another dozen or so of crabs and lobsters in anatomical detail out of a Victorian science book which live in my loo. Also a dozen or so original watercolours, smallish ones, picked up in charity shops, plus one of York and a couple of prints all done by a friend of Richard's. Some old maps, and a large antique fox hunting print worth about £100. And a huge print of an owl by Edward Lear, again worth quite a bit. Both from charity shops.

I also have lots and lots of postcards in clip frames, of paintings from art galleries, old photos of Accy and other places, plus images from birthday cards etc, just pictures that I like. No framed photos of people, can't bear them, but some collages of old family photos and joky photos of Richard and some of us together.

I just like my walls to be covered - I also have about a hundred plates and saucers still in boxes waiting to be unpacked. And yes we have lots of wall space in a four storey house!

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

I don't think a photo would be that good anyway if you didn't put some thought into it! But then what if you waved it around at some colored lights so you got squiggles on the photo - is that art?

what like this? and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... the first two is local and three and four are not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...

[susie123]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

what like this? and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... ones local and ones not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...

Wow Jen... you are quite the artist...

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by susie123

Wow Jen... you are quite the artist...

aww thank you susie ...

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

what like this? and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... the first two is local and three and four are not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...

i am sure some would argue, that what you have created, is art, just the same people would argue isn't, i think my original question should have concentrated more on the medium of photography, rather than the content

just as some would argue about a jackson pollock, or the unmade bed

as for where they are your joking right lol havent got a clue

[MargaretR]

The Truth is out There - in Rising Bridge

[shillelagh]

no one willing to have a guess .... will admit 3 & 4 was took through the window of the car i was travelling in coming back from bangor on the motorway ... its actually the oil refinery in cheshire ... well part of it ...

but 1 & 2 .. is took in hyndburn ... was took this year and i was with 2 other accywebbers at the time ...

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

what like this? and if anyone can guess where they are taken i'll give em karma ... the first two is local and three and four are not ... 2 different places ..

oh and on my walls at the minute ... is a series of pics i took myself, 1 a picture a friend bought me and my mum & dads wedding photo ...

Ha ha! Yes that's what I meant, I had some of me doing that with the moon and I can't find them now. It is art; a simpler form of what Pollock did, he did it with paint - you did this with light.

Is this video I took art?

[shillelagh]

its a case of not managing to keep your hand steady while taking the picture ..... theyd upped my medication a few days beforehand ....

[susie123]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

its a case of not managing to keep your hand steady while taking the picture ..... theyd upped my medication a few days beforehand ....

Ha ha Jen I have that problem a lot at the moment - good job I can delete most of my pics...

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

no one willing to have a guess .... will admit 3 & 4 was took through the window of the car i was travelling in coming back from bangor on the motorway ... its actually the oil refinery in cheshire ... well part of it ...

but 1 & 2 .. is took in hyndburn ... was took this year and i was with 2 other accywebbers at the time ...

I thought it might be the roof of a petrol station and the sign.

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by susie123

Ha ha Jen I have that problem a lot at the moment - good job I can delete most of my pics...

thats why i like the digital camera .. if it had been a film one you'd have to take the film in to boots or supasnaps or wherever .. and pay to have em developed .. and wait a week ... with a digital one you can look at em and if theyve turned out rubbish .. then throw em in the recycle bin ...

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by mobertol

I thought it might be the roof of a petrol station and the sign.

well you got the right product mobertol .. i went to visit my nephew a couple of years back in bangor and it was dark when we were coming home .. and it was all lit up and sister was driving steadily ... so tried to take the pic ... sis speeded up just as i was taking the pic ... and thats how it came out ... no ideas on the first 2 pics ....