Is an image posted on a monitor a photograph or does it need to be physically printed? I think there can be a big difference between the two, and also if the person taking the image isn't the one printing the image.
Is an image posted on a monitor a photograph or does it need to be physically printed? I think there can be a big difference between the two, and also if the person taking the image isn't the one printing the image.
IDK If that was the case bresson would be hung out to dry (along with everyone else who has a relationship with a lab and printmaker). Making a photograph might just refer to the exposure event where it all happenstances…Originally Posted by Thad Gerheim
Hey remember that McCaw guy who burned stuff with aerial lenses?
Last edited by Michael R; 21-Feb-2023 at 14:10.
“what does it take to be a "photographer" in 2023?”
Craftmanship?
Quite an easy task to define it.
sorry but I am kind of clueless,
can you tell me what you mean ?
cause I don't think of most photographers
as crafts(wo)men or crafts monkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey...yright_dispute
Yes.
Any photographic assignment you need and willing to pay for it from your own pocket.
what does that have to do with craft ?
so if money is involved it is a craft ?
It's always the snobs who accuse other people of being snobs.
I consider this to have always been the case, but perhaps more so now given the ubiquity of cameras/photographic tools, that ones dedication/time spent in the making of photographs is the key determining factor. If someone really commits themselves to the practice of photography, implying a deep interest, curiosity, and passion for the process, then they can be considered a photographer. It has more to do with their intention rather than the work itself.
If I see someone obsessively doing their work, whether I like it or not (which in itself is trivial at best), then I automatically hold them in high regard.
I believe I heard Fay Godwin saying something of the sort. And as Sally Mann says, which I'm a broken record about myself, so many people spend all their time self proclaiming themselves as artists, photograhers, etc. when the only thing that matters is the work. Don't waste yours and my time telling me you're an artist, go make art for goodness sake. Furthermore, who cares about titles; artist, painter, photographer, etc. Who has time for that? (I would argue people who are none of those things)
You don't wake up and decide to make work, you do it because you must, theres no other option. As Andrea Modica says, If I don't photograph I'm depressed.
Of course it's important to consider, what everyone knows, that the word means drawing with light, so anyone who performs this act can without question be considered a photographer. I suspect my character evaluation filtering process, previously mentioned, arose on account of the fact that most people can legitimately call themselves photographers.
I just don't want to look at all that work, so I have to find a shortcut to what I think is the good stuff.
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