For you, is photography a form of expression or documentation?

[markbarendt]

For you, is photography a form of expression or documentation?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Why do we have to make a decision? Both.

Innately a photograph documents what the lens sees and therefore has integrity. Add or remove something significant to express something that does not exist and the photograph loses its integrity.

 

[eddie]

Expression. Whatever I photograph, I am trying to convey it as I see it. Sometimes it borders on documentation, but it always expresses my own bias.

 

[markbarendt]

Why do we have to make a decision? Both.

Innately a photograph documents what the lens sees and therefore has integrity. Add or remove something significant to express something that does not exist and the photograph loses its integrity.

You don't have to, the poll is set up so that you can select both answers.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Both really. I connect with photography on multiple levels. For me it's mostly because I just love to get out and do it. And I love fiddling with the gear, admiring the feel and look of the craftsmanship that went into building my mostly classic collection of cameras. And lastly, the euphoria in my mind and the adrenaline rush I feel when looking at the end result when it works is like crack cocaine to me.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Why do we have to make a decision? Both.

Innately a photograph documents what the lens sees and therefore has integrity. Add or remove something significant to express something that does not exist and the photograph loses its integrity.

You don't have to, the poll is set up so that you can select both answers.

Thank you. I did just that.

 

[removed account4]

hi mark

for me it is the same, it is a document of a form of expression.
it is a photograph showing a record of a person, place, think, or what i did
and the "what i did" might be make a photograph of a tree or a person or
the results of how the sun recorded the refracted light of a glass or bottle or glasses onto paper.

 

[Jeff Bradford]

Personal development through artistic expression.

 

[ivanlow]

Its a documentation with artistic expression, also an expression for documentation.

 

[blockend]

I'm with Garry Winogrand - I take photographs to see what things look like photographed.

 

[Black Dog]

''It's a generous medium, photography'' [Lee Friedlander]. For me it's definitely both.

 

[frank]

''It's a generous medium, photography'' [Lee Friedlander]. For me it's definitely both.

+1, and thanks for that quote. I hadn't heard it before.

 

[MattKing]

You don't have to, the poll is set up so that you can select both answers.

Wish I had read this before voting.

My answer to the question is: "yes"

 

[Peltigera]

It is a form of expression. I do not worry about integrity at all - I concentrate on producing great art.

An exception when I am working as a naturalist - I take photographs of insects to verify identification so then purely documentation.

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[markbarendt]

Wish I had read this before voting.

My answer to the question is: "yes"

Tried to get that info into the title as best I could

 

[frank]

For you, is photography a form of expression or documentation?

Yes is my answer.

 

[cliveh]

In the Zen sense, I would have to say documentation. But if others read expression, then that is not intentional.

 

[ambaker]

90% expression, 10% documentation.


-They tie Mountain Climbers together so that the sane ones can't go home...

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

It is a form of expression. I do not worry about integrity at all - I concentrate on producing great art.

Art? Who said anything about art? ;-)

 

[benjiboy]

I've been a photographer for more than sixty years, I often think I must take them out of pure masochism.

 

[Sirius Glass]

It is a form of expression. I do not worry about integrity at all - I concentrate on producing great art.

Your words: You have no integrity? What have you no scruples either?

 

[Peltigera]

Art? Who said anything about art? ;-)

I did!

 

[Peltigera]

Your words: You have no integrity? What have you no scruples either?

Not my words at all. You have edited what I wrote and then taken it out of context.

In a context of photography, I do not worry about integrity. Not the same thing at all.
In a context of living, I have more integrity than you do as I do not edit other people's words to pretend they said something they did not.

 

[Maris]

Photography documents, it is a factive medium, and the expressive consequences of that documentation have a native intensity and authenticity not matched by fictive media like painting or drawing or electronic picture-making.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

Photography documents, it is a factive medium, and the expressive consequences of that documentation have a native intensity and authenticity not matched by fictive media like painting or drawing or electronic picture-making.

Strongly agree...