Do you class photography as art, and if so do you have anybodys work on your wall? - Page 3

mobertol · 29-08-2012, 14:59

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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.

Flash, bang, wallop.

I am a camera.

But am I a living work of art?

I shy away from the surreal -find it a bit alarming somehow.

I like more realistic photography which captures the feel of a place or time.

I know that you are artistic, having seen some of your creations on paper and with textiles - the art is in the creation and originality I think. That is something you're born with and can be developed through learning techniques and expressing your own style.

I know I don't have an artistic bone in my body but I have always liked taking photographs and I think about one in every 50 or so of mine could be considered to be artistic perhaps. I have also discovered that when I write I can describe things well so I think I'm probably descriptive in the pictures I take too.

Have just spent an hour hunting out two photos from my "Reflex" days which had got put away in the cellar! they used to be on the walls till we moved here 7 yrs ago -they were still wrapped in newspaper!

Both taken in Brittany in 1997 -i like them and think they are artistic -but perhaps I'm unobjective as it was a particularly memorable holiday!

The portrait is my husband on a beach. The landscape you will recognise, it was taken at 11-30pm just before sunset -no tripod or posing, just flash, bang, wallop!

I'd just taken a series of pictures of my sons flying kites which also have a nice feel to them for the light i think. As I say perhaps I'm blinded by the memories.

susie123 · 29-08-2012, 15:29

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

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 ....

I think she meant the first two!

Studio25 · 29-08-2012, 16:54

This sums up "art"...

shillelagh · 29-08-2012, 18:01

i prefer the bottom one ...

davemac · 29-08-2012, 19:46

I think photos can be many things, and yes I think they can be classed as art.

If a person has a vision of what a good photo should be, plans, and then waits for the right conditions, for perhaps the right light, or the right sunset, then it is an art, it can be artistic, or can be classed as art. This though has to be determined by the viewer and not the person presenting it.
Also they can be pictorial reminders,(holiday snaps ) or photographic representations of events, (today in pictures ).

garinda · 29-08-2012, 20:40

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Originally Posted by Studio25

This sums up "art"...

Take your point, although not wholly correct.

Graffiti was first exhibited and sold in New York art galleries way back in the early eighties, and the most successful in that field still sell their work for mega bucks.

Perhaps art today should be redefined as 'any old tat the money men think will make them a lot of dosh, as an investment'.

garinda · 29-08-2012, 20:50

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Originally Posted by mobertol

I shy away from the surreal -find it a bit alarming somehow.

You need to be more adventurous.

Try living living it.

The water's lovely.

Come on in.

Walk on it.

mobertol · 29-08-2012, 20:56

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Originally Posted by garinda

You need to be more adventurous.

Try living living it.

The water's lovely.

Come on in.

Walk on it.

Been a while since I thew caution to the winds.

Just need someone to give me their hand perhaps...

shillelagh · 29-08-2012, 20:59

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Been a while since I thew caution to the winds.

Just need someone to give me their hand perhaps...

rindy is the chief corrupter on here .. less aint so far behind either ...

mobertol · 29-08-2012, 21:03

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

no one willing to have a guess ....

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

Rising Bridge makes me think the McDonalds...or maybe another take.away place...

shillelagh · 29-08-2012, 21:09

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Rising Bridge makes me think the McDonalds...or maybe another take.away place...

Rising Bridge is in rossendale ....

im going to tell you where it is ... its whinney hill road going up from huncoat industrial estate .. i was walking back into accy along burnley road with spugster and lynx1 and mac .. and looked over when we got outside the cemetary and all you could see were the street lights going up ... and tried taking the pic .. and hand shook .. then a car came over the hill going down towards huncoat.. and thats the one thats on its own ...

thats why its in different places ....

heres all the photos i took that night ...

mobertol · 29-08-2012, 21:12

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Rising Bridge is in rossendale ....

im going to tell you where it is ... its whinney hill road going up from huncoat industrial estate .. i was walking back into accy with spugster and lynx1 and mac .. and looked over and all you could see were the street lights going up ... and tried taking the pic .. and hand shook .. then a car came over the hill going down towards huncoat.. and thats the one thats on its own ...

thats why its in different places ....

heres all the photos i took that night ...

Thanks -can sleep now that I know -was convinced it was the roof of some place and a sign -mind you I wear progressive lenses!

shillelagh · 29-08-2012, 21:31

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Thanks -can sleep now that I know -was convinced it was the roof of some place and a sign -mind you I wear progressive lenses!

didnt want to be blamed for you having no kip ....

garinda · 29-08-2012, 22:41

I once saw an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in London.

Most of the work was hidden away in a room where you had to provide proof you were over eighteen, before you could view it.

If art is something that supposedly makes you think, it certainly did that.

I had no idea you could use a calla lily as a cathetar, before seeing that exhibition of mucky snaps.

mobertol · 30-08-2012, 07:09

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Originally Posted by garinda

I once saw an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in London.

Most of the work was hidden away in a room where you had to provide proof you were over eighteen, before you could view it.

If art is something that supposedly makes you think, it certainly did that.

I had no idea you could use a calla lily as a cathetar, before seeing that exhibition of mucky snaps.

Sounds interesting to say the least - I expect you managed to sneak in when you were 14

I saw the film Fur with Nicole Kidman, where she played photographer Diane Arbus and had a look at her work after it -not really surreal but a difficult reality. Worth looking at and it helped having had an insight into her life in the film, very particular woman. This portfolio of some of her more famous photos is worth perusing. Will see if I can find some of Mr Mapplethorpe's...

DIANE ARBUS - THE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK