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Ko.Fe. said:

Reading this thread responses makes me even more firm on my description. Fine art is a bogus term.
Jane Bown was taking portraits, not fine art. Klein - fashion commercials. Herzog - street photographer.
Here is no fine art, but landscapes, naturmorts, portraits, documentary, street and so on.

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Fine-Art Photography: a photograph made to be sold. It exists for no other reason than to exist, vs a non-Fine-Art photograph which exists in reference to something else, be it to support an idea or to sell something.

There, a controversial and contentious answer to the meaning of the label "Fine-Art Photography".

Ko.Fe. said:

Reading this thread responses makes me even more firm on my description. Fine art is a bogus term.
Jane Bown was taking portraits, not fine art. Klein - fashion commercials. Herzog - street photographer.
Here is no fine art, but landscapes, naturmorts, portraits, documentary, street and so on.

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So fine art does not exist? Or only fine art photography? And why?

MattKing said:

When documentary becomes fine art - Jane Bown and her Olympus OM (Samuel Beckett is the subject):
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+1 on Jane Bown
My favorite portraitist of all time. I keep her book "Faces" on hand.

+1 Colin Corneau