I think the old philosophy One man's junk is another man's treasure should apply here. What's art to me may not be art to you and so forth and so on. Art can't be defined. It just is!!!

I think people have different interperatations of art as you say and people have different opinions of what constitutes commercial photography and artistic photography.

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Photo taken in the pitch black, if someone can identify any artistry to it, I will give them a cookie.

Otherwise, I say Stone Magnet has made a fair argument.

My favorite color is black, does that count?

Photography is art. Stonemagnet was 10 pages of arguement really necessary?

He didn't say all photography wasn't art, just taking photos of other peoples art with a digital camera isn't.

Was it necessary for several members to berate me for their own assumptions? I never said that all photography is not art.

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.

1. The graffiti section really was just a little display of some local pieces and character's displayed in a fashion that is a bit unique, I thought at least.
2. If you don't think capturing graffiti is even an art in itself then what about architechture photography? Millions of dollars go into the just PICTURES of the buildings, not even the buildings themself. (the millions are not refering to one building, but rather a whole business)
3. What does it matter? Everyone is an art critic now but I think I would like to see some of your art before your complain about it what is/isn't.