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Old 05-30-2006, 09:34 AM   #109 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bungalowbill357
Whether he meant to or not, he did say that photography was "void of any artistic merit".
Please explain to me how an exhibit on urban life in the 20th Century done by a photographer is not artistic.
Once again, I said that the process of taking and printing photographs is void of any artistic merit. For example, taking pictures for a newspaper. That is the mere process of, well, taking pictures. It is of no artistic value or even intent. Photography can be a process, or it can be an art. You said that yourself.

Taking photographs of a town does not imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. It is not imaginative, it requires nominal skill, and it is not aesthetically gratifying.

Not all photographers are artists.
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