Photographers who shot 35mm...

TheFlyingCamera · May 21, 2020

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.

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".

Pieter12 · May 21, 2020

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.

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

John Bragg · May 21, 2020

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.

drkhalsa · May 21, 2020

+1 Colin Corneau

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