THE DEFINITION OF THE "ART PHOTO" by R.L.Huffstutter
Almost everyone has an album or a box full of snapshots taken throughout the years.
In each album and within every box of these images of times past, there is an art photo, a photograph that is a favorite, a photo for whatever reason appeals to one's senses. That's to say, there is an image that fills the viewer with emotion. The emotion might be one of joy, one of sorrow, an image that returns one's mind to another place, another time.
The art photo is one that was taken to express the moment; this photo makes an impression. The art photo that is like a painting that is one of impressionism and expressionism, the photo that is the personal masterpiece of the photographer that took the picture. The photographer is the artist, the picture is the "art photo."
Art photos, then, are not French postcards with images of scantily-clad or naked women. The art photo, the American picture, the masterpiece within the box or in the album.
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2 comments:
I love your definition, I know it is true of some of my old photo's I took. It is what they mean to me that is why I like them, not so much how perfect the shot is.
true definition....
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