Photography Art or Not?

i recently asked a quetion and someone said that my photos where just snap shoots not art in any form so what do you think is photography to you an art or just simply snapshoots








i know at the end of they day photos are snap shots however do you consider photographt an art form. I know i do

Photography Art or Not?
Some photographs are as artistic as my 3 year olds crayon scribble renderings of me and my wife. They are merely an attempt at recreating what is seen with the human eye with the desired medium.





I am a maturing amateur photographer, but take great pride and care into my pictures. Not all of them are art. As a matter of fact, some are quite the opposite. They are garbage. What is more amazing to me is that my off handed shot, or lucky click of the shutter rendered more "artistic" value than a planned or thought-through shot.





Quite honestly, photography done correctly is the most tangible art form for most people. A photograph can evict as much or more emotion, joy, laughter, or devotion as any form of classical art.
Reply:Yes I consider it art.... I am sure that myself and other photographers usually spend more time on a single picture than most folks with a camera and you can tell....
Reply:Yes, a lot of photography can be considered art. It all depends on how the person takes the images, and puts it together by pointing the camera. A lot of times, you can find art classes in colleges for photography.
Reply:Of course!


In photography, its all about capturing the right light at a right angle. Snap shots are used to discribe art work taken without any care, such as random quick pictures of a friend or something, so no I don't consider snap shots to be art, but photography that has taken a lot of time to do, I consider to be art.
Reply:I think answer on your question depends on the type of photography you do. Photography is painting with light, if you do really well on this concept then you might even be considered as an artist. As for me, I'm just a street photographer, I'm merely photographing life nothing more.








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Reply:Photography is the Folk Art of the 20th/21st centuries.





By that, I mean that it's value is diminished in some people's view because it has been available to everyone from nearly the beginning, thus making virtually everyone a "practitioner" ... compared to say, painting.





Nevertheless, there will always still be a Fine caliber of photography that will always unquestionably be art.
Reply:There is a lot that goes into photography that makes it art.





However, not every photographer or photo is art.
Reply:You are taking one or two comments from your last question too much to heart. (yes I read and answered it) Keep working, we all are learning here. It takes time and hands on practice to develop a photographic eye, your trying to capture a 3d world on a 2d medium, and doing so consistently just takes practice. Hang in there, you do have some good shots, and remember the best image you'll ever make is the one your about to take !!!!





G'Luck, and keep shooting, and plz, keep asking questions, you WILL get some good if not honest feedback.
Reply:Snapshot is exactly what it says - a shot taken in a 'snap' or a moment. Usually, this is without any pre-planning at all and the results usually show just that. There are occasions when a snapshot provides the basis for art but the photographer must be able to see the content and use it to create art.


More often than not, a 'photograph' is created by a person with artistic talent, one with an eye to see, and the end-image is usually conceived in the mind before the shutter is opened.


You do not provide a link to your art-work so we cannot be any judge.


The fact is that, by human nature, all camera-users believe that they are very good photographers, especially when their friends and family tell them that the pictures are 'Awesome!'


Life is not as straightforward as that.


Be brave - show us what you have!
Reply:There is fine art photography and then there is everyday photography. Stuff like "cheese!" of you and your friends is everyday, fine art is trying to express a specific message.





When someone said you weren't taking "art" they probably meant you in paticular and not photography in general. I probably wouldn't agree with them since everybody is capable of art....just some are more talented then others.
Reply:Hell yes it's art. I mostly process my own film and print my own photographs in the darkroom. In no way are any of those ever "snapshots"
Reply:"Snapshots" are images that show no apparent composition or photographic skills. There appear to have been "taken from the hip"





Art on the other hand usually involves previsualization, exacting composition, perfect exposure and development of the film and printing the image and processing them using archival methods.





You did not give us a link so we can see for ourselves.





Here are some images that could be considered commercial photo art.





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Reply:Every aspect of life, including extremely-mundane-every-day things, can be transformed into “art”.


How?


By executing them or performing them in an “artful” way.


What is “artful”?


Volumes are written about the meaning of art. Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.


Bottom line…..if you are somehow “drawn” to a picture for whatever reason…then the photographer has given your eyes something to pause and focus on….and not all “snapshots” have that quality.

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