What is "Fine art" photography??

The definitions exist in what over time the public has deemed to be worth seeing in the world's best galleries and museums.

Time will tell if your photos are worthy of consideration.
 
Toilets are as clean as anything else when first manufactured, once used they are no longer viable for any other use. Regards. L
Yes, of course I knew that. The point was the faint cringe factor that people exhibit when told the story.

A lot of stuff we use, waste product is employed somehow to keep costs lower.

Like the waste from beer breweries was used to make the Aussie Vegemite. I used to see the brewery tanker trucks dumping their load at the Vegemite factory in Sydney then the smell for the next few days of Vegemite being cooked up.
 
Toilets are as clean as anything else when first manufactured, once used they are no longer viable for any other use. Regards. L
Yes, of course I knew that. The point was the faint cringe factor that people exhibit when told the story.

A lot of stuff we use, waste product is employed somehow to keep costs lower.

Like the waste from beer breweries was used to make the Aussie Vegemite. I used to see the brewery tanker trucks dumping their load at the Vegemite factory in Sydney then the smell for the next few days of Vegemite being cooked up.
I didn’t mean to steal your thunder, moons ago, a friends son worked in a famous soup manufacturing factory, In the factory between the machines were V shape runaways to take the ikky stuff away.. Soup anyone.. Regards. L
 
I've always thought that fine art pictures are those where it isn't immediately apparent what the pictures are of. [Yes, I know that a preposition is something you shouldn't end a sentence with.]
Maybe that was true once, but nowadays Fine Art photography is mostly woke pictures of unfortunate people.

Don
What's a 'woke picture'?
I assume they would call Dorothea Lange's image of the migrant mother a "woke" picture. Also, Robert Frank's book "Americans" is what they would call a "woke" book today.
Yes. If D Cox had spent any time with Migrant Mother, Stieglitz’ The Steerage, so much from Gordon Parks and so much more, he’d have realized that what he considers unique to “nowadays” has a long and rich pedigree.
 
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Not everything can be put into words. Ask someone to define love or give a definition of God?

What you consider to be "fine art" or a great song may be valid to you, but not to a large consensus of people.

I happen to believe that Led Zeppelin's song "Hey Hey What Can I Do" is one of the best pieces of existentialism written, but that is just me.

One the other hand, I think the Beethoven 91h symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music written and I can point to 400 years of it being played as proof.
 
I didn't say I expected other people to define a word. I gave an example of how something can be defined by something other than words.

A picture is worth a thousand words (the words do not have to be spoken) the definition of the picture is in the picture.
 
"Beethoven composed the Ninth Symphony during a period between the spring of 1823 and January 1824."

You are quite correct. No need to be sorry.
 
If something turns out to be great, it is determined by consensus over time, not be a single person.

There are many examples of this from music to art to sports.

A single point in time can be very misleading.

"DO YOUR BEST, HISTORY WILL DO THE REST." Harry S Truman

"

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

The text of a cable sent by Mark Twain from London to the press in the United States after his obituary had been mistakenly published."
 
Hi, what makes a photo a "fine art" photo, and who is it that officially deems a photo as a "fine art" piece? In doing an image search for fine art photographs I can clearly see most are extremely well done. So what exactly separates a good image from a fine art image and who decides??
Having fallen under the influence of Marcel Duchamp, I’ll offer this: a fine art photograph is any photograph that is displayed in an environment in which fine art photographs are typically displayed.
Yes! It seems that all of these folks arguing otherwise are people who somehow aren't aware of how the definition of art was broadened way back in the early 20th century. It took some years after that for photography to have a broader acceptance as a medium of art, but even that idea is very old at this point as well...
 
During the years I have learned in DPR that in the (wider) "Anglo American" world, (US, UK, Aus, ie), photographic pictures are very roughly classified into "snapshots", "good images" and "fine art", according to the properties, qualities and also who is the photographer and even how many minutes the photographer uses to take the picture :-D However, the distinction between these "classes" doesn't seem very clear, and much depends on who gives the verdict.

Somebody even had the rule that you need to use minimum a few minutes to take the picture for it not to be a "snapshot" :-D

In the few other languages I speak it seems that you just "classify" photographic pictures in poor, reasonable, good and excellent pictures, regardless of how many minutes you have used to take the picture?

Also some pictures are called "artistic", without any specific explanation. So this "artistic" classification would probably correspond to the "fine art" classification?

Jahn
Jahn, the problem is that ALL of these explanations are PURELY arbitrary and each and every one of us has those same categories and each of us has a different meaning and threshold for each since there is no standardization and they have NO official meanings. I Think it's a safe bet that probably a majority of Pulitzer Prize winning images start as "snapshots", by what you've presented since they probably take a split second to shoot and are among the best images ever seen and created.

We're applying way to much personal feeling into all of these meanings. As long as we categorize anything using our own personal biases and feelings our categories are completely meaningless

John
 

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