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From Snapshot to Fine Art
In his latest eassay Michael Reichmann explains what he thinks separates a snapshot from a fine-art photograph.
“Every photographer is a snapshooter at heart. I don’t know of a fine art photographer, regardless of their pretentious, who didn’t also take snapshots. Especially pictures of members of their family, and in particular children and babies. It simply goes with the territory of being a photographer and of having taking photographs as a way of life. It’s how we see the world and how we share it with others.
Most of the time these family photos and snapshots end up in an album, and occasionally, if they’re really good, as a framed print. But once in a very rare while an image can rise above its origins and become a fine art print. This essay is a detailed look at the esthetic as well as the technical decisions that went into the making of Baby and Watering Can, seen above.”
Website: Luminous Landscape - From Snapshot to Fine Art
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#1 Oleg Kikin
The article might be correct, but that photo of the baby does NOT look like fine art at all. They could've used a stronger example, much stronger. Look at works of Sally Mann "Immediate Family" and you will see how fine art photos of children should be done.
12:29 pm - Thursday, September 23, 2004