Art And Photography : Is Digital Photography Art?

Photographical equipment at this pictorial was still primitive and many photographers felt that their lens’ recorded too much detail. Photographers started to employ different techniques to soften their images, their main goal was to create images that looked more abstract and with similar characteristics to paintings. This movement then transformed into naturalism where it was encouraged to treat photography as an independent art form. There was a belief that photography should be used to communicate something personal, and that the environment would be used as an inspiration.

It is said that “The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play not with form but with time”. This makes me think that the real content of a picture, which is what the photographer tried to express, is not evident to perceive unless an explanatory text is provided. In fact, I believe that our perceptions of pictures changes over time as the historical context do. In addition, our opinions are never fixed as they are influenced by our environment. Therefore, when looking at a particular picture at a given time, it is certain that our perception of it will be different in the future based on what happen between the first time and second time we saw it.

Art has been a factor of our life as long as humanity has existed. For thousands of years, art has been created, observed, critiqued, and enjoyed by human beings in many regions across the world. Art aren’t just murals, sculptures, music, books or anything that someone may define as art but more of a bigger picture like if has a deeper meaning such a message or a theme that is looked upon. Art can be viewed at as many different ways in terms of people having different reactions or observing it in a different meaning. Someone could feel that the art work is very extraordinary and unique but someone else can have a different reaction and feel like it is no different than other artworks and have a literalist view upon the art. One art that made

Personally, I feel like the line that separates media from art is a very tricky and obscure one. It’s relatively easy to differentiate between media and multimedia, however when the term art is brought in, classification becomes difficult. Everyone has varied ideas of what art is and what should be considered art but I believe that art causes the viewer to conjure up some form of human idea, emotion or thought.

What is your idea of art? Art can be made in many different styles from Earth art made with sticks and stones to a beautiful painting.You can also make art from scraps such as broken tools. These are all different kinds of art, many artists are known for certain kinds of art.

Art. A word that encompasses different ideas and feelings to everyone of us. Boredom, excitement, hate, love, to the themes of politics, portraits, photographs, comedy and on and on. The art of taking a photograph and transporting it to a piece of canvas with paint and acrylic is called photo realism. A pioneer of her time, Audrey Flack did just that. Her name is synonymous with photorealism in the art world. She took the world by a storm with her paintings of people and and their emotions based off of photography. (Kleiner, 971) Becoming the first artist to actually express emotion into her art as all other photorealistic artist chose emotionless still life. She opened up a can of excitement and depth when she went from abstract painting in the 1950's to the 1960's photorealism. In 1966 her collection was permanently displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, allowing Audrey Flack to become the first photorealistic artist to have this happen to.

For a piece to be considered art, it would need to have effort or work put into it by an individual. Anything can be considered art, if you put your mind to it. A couch, for instance, can be a work of art because somebody put effort into it to make it an appealing piece for an individual to want or desire. For my artists painting from the Art Prize, is it obvious he put lots of work and effort into it to show the most intricate details and it almost puts on a “dreamy” feeling.

The photograph is a very powerful medium. The French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed upon seeing an early photograph “from now on, painting is dead!” (Sayre, 2000). Many critics did not take photography seriously as a legitimate art form until the 20th century. With the

As a photographer, I could alter the space of an object or subject within an image; in order to make it appear as something totally different and unintended to the photographer’s initial standpoint. When creating masterpieces, I should be focused on the piece; as a whole, and not the individual ingredients that make up the piece. As an artist, I have to be focused on what works for me; and use that to my advantage, because once that façade goes up, you just become another reproduction; in a long line of genuine articles. The reason for that would be because of the level of insecurities we all have; once you regained that confidence within yourself, execution of your overall product will be quite effective.

Between the use of film or digital photography, film is the more effective method when looking for originality and creativity. With the adoption of digital photography, the younger generations, as well as the older and more current photographers are becoming lazy. These groups must recognize that the art of the photograph is being jeopardized by the digital camera and the camera phone. For the current photographers as well as amateur photographers, this essay will serve as testimony to film as well as other chemical methods, and how they shouldn’t be ignored, but preferred. The digital era has had a massive impact on the art world and all of its mediums, but for photography this impact has resulted in the removal of the human from the photograph making process. This intimate process is what makes it an art form. All of films imperfections and unique qualities, as well as its monetary value and scarcity are just a few factors that have made it so precious. To replace this entire process with a microchip is offensive and undermines the importance of the process that is needed to make a photograph. Anyone can take a picture but you must make a photograph, and this skill is being simplified to a digital camera. The impact of the digital era on photography has hindered the process of making a photograph; painting the art form obsolete in today’s society.

Human creativity is one of the basic elements of art. Our creativity is one of the things that set us apart from animals. This is the broadest of the three components to the definition of what is art. For something to be considered art there has to be a creative aspect to it. Even though this is a very broad topic, we can still narrow down the list of things that are potentially art. We can eliminate reproductions of art, as art. An example of this is the Mona Lisa. While the Mona Lisa is undoubtedly art, pictures of the Mona Lisa, or reproductions of it are not are because they do not have a creative component to them. While they are pictures of art I would not consider them to be art, because they are merely copies of the original piece of art. There is no significant difference between the pictures and the original work of art. While one can consider the pictures to be authentic replications of the Mona Lisa that does not make them art. One common rebuttal to this theory is that, because it is the same image and that there are some creative aspects to taking the picture that it is art. However, this is not art, because the new artist did not implement their own significant creative twist.

Art is removed from any notion of real truth, an inherently flawed copy of an already imperfect world. Art as an imitation is irrelevant to what is real.

When trying to define art, humankind runs in to many difficulties. Traditional concepts of art include painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography. Art can also be one

Digital art is a general term for a range of works by the artists who use digital technologies as a major part of the processes of creation and representation (Paul, 2006). Specifically, digital technology refers to the application of computers as media and partners for the artists in creating art works. However, digital industry is often a vague term and does not clearly define the final form of the art work. In his book called Art of The Digital Age, Wands (2006) has classified digital art works based on their final tool to digital prints, sculpture, installations and virtual reality, performance, music and art of sounds, video and animation, software, databank, and the art of gaming. He says although many digital arts including digital picture

When it comes to the relationship between art and design, it can be hard to distinguish where one ends and the other begins. Often the terms are used interchangeably, as certain design work is art.