Originally Posted by
cyrus
I pointed out one example of a portfolio on a subject that was entirely original (in Lens Work) and someone else pointed out the site of that Russian photographer, which was also mostly quite original (bumble bee in glass jar ? Weston? Adams?) so no one can't really claim that "everything that can be photographed as been photographed" (Reminds me of the US congressman who wanted to close down the US Patent Office because he claimed everything that could be invented had been invented!)
I suppose we can always look for interesting views of the same old subjects, or to present the old subjects in a new way. That's not bad, but it is still derivative. When it comes to selecting the subject matter, finding something entirely new and non-cliche to photograph requires the extra dose of something called CREATIVITY or ORIGINALITY - the factors that separate the photographer-as-technician from the photographer-as-ARTIST.
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