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Photography as an art form
 
Classic Alfred Stieglitz photograph, The Steerage shows unique aesthetic
of black and white photos.During the twentieth century, both fine art
photography and documentary photography became accepted by the
English-speaking art world and the gallery system. In the United States, a
handful of photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen,
John Szarkowski, and Edward Weston, spent their lives advocating for
photography as a fine art.
Phony meteors strike the sky around Milky WayAt first, fine art
photographers tried to imitate painting styles. This movement is called
Pictorialism, often using soft focus for a dreamy, 'romantic' look. In
reaction to that, Weston, Ansel Adams, and others formed the f/64 Group to
advocate 'straight photography', the photograph as a (sharply focused)
thing in itself and not an imitation of something else.
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Jay Bjerkan Photography
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Specializing in black and white landscape photography.
St. Helena, Ca. 94574
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MacKellar Photos *
Ron MacKellar is a talented artist who uses photography
as his canvas. Beautiful images of birds, wild animals, scenic places
and fascinating things are all subjects for his art. On any given day
you can find him on the back roads of Napa Valley, the Central Valley,
Yosemite, or anywhere in California.
232 Los Cerritos, Vallejo, Ca 94589
707 643-6122
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The aesthetics of photography is a matter that continues to be
discussed regularly, especially in artistic circles. Many artists
argued that photography was the mechanical reproduction of an image.
If photography is authentically art, then photography in the context
of art would need redefinition, such as determining what component of
a photograph makes it beautiful to the viewer. The controversy began
with the earliest images "written with light"; Nicéphore Niépce, Louis
Daguerre, and others among the very earliest photographers were met
with acclaim, but some questioned if their work met the definitions
and purposes of art.
Clive Bell in his classic essay Art states that only "significant
form" can distinguish art from what is not art.
“ There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot
exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether
worthless. What is this quality? What quality is shared by all objects
that provoke our aesthetic emotions? What quality is common to Sta.
Sophia and the windows at Chartres, Mexican sculpture, a Persian bowl,
Chinese carpets, Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and the masterpieces of
Poussin, Piero della Francesca, and Cezanne? Only one answer seems
possible - significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a
particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our
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