how is photography related to art?

Answer 1

Photography is an art form. A wonderful photograph has composition, color, texture interesting subject and emotional content. Just doesn't have any brushstrokes. also you can play with light and shadow, especially in b&w

Answer 2

Art is the end result of a process by an artist. Photography is a medium that an artist may use to produce a work of art. So photography is related to art by way of an artist (who is also a photographer) who produces works of art that are photos.

Answer 3

I really think there is a serious misunderstanding in here.

See art is that which we can do with our hands (directly) or our body. That is why films weren't taken into the list as one of the Fine Arts, they refer to cinema as the 7th Art, because of that but Architecture, Dancing, Sculpting, Painting, music, theatre.

I think as a method, it is much more of a craftsmanship, we use a thing to deliver de photo: we use an artifact. So it isn't really you the one who makes the picture, is the artifact.

Now we consider some of the photos around as artistic, because of their form and what they contain. It is much of an artistic expression, but I don't think it would be appropriate to say photo is art even thought it is related to it.

Photo was born from the need to speed up paintings, because they took so much time to render one and the person must be still during that period. Then photo became more adecquate as a media, and film is now a beautiful friendly material to use. It is kinda sad that digital photo is moving along so strong, because traditional photo is real craftmanship, nowadays everyone witha powershot with 10 mega pixels calls himself a photographer.

And the lack of information is degrading our true History as humans cause we dont really mind about it anymore, anyone can call himself (her) an artist.

What is art for you?

Is it something just being beautiful or is it also a combination of knowledge and tradition what makes art what it is?

So photo is related to art... but... what is art nowadays?

Answer 4

I concur with the last person, it is the artist who makes the art, not the medium. It is an antiquated idea that certain mediums can only distinguished as art and not others. Consider this idea, Jackson Pollock created most of his paintings using ordinary house paints, and is regarded as one of the most important figures in modern art, so if it follows that medium makes something art would it not mean that everytime you paint your house you are creating art....certainly not.
Indeed composition,color, scale etc.. are all fascets of art, but not all art need include these elements, just consider a lot of post-modern art. A more general term must be used for art, one which can encompass a great deal more. Art in the most liberal of terms is anything which is created with the intention of elevating the benign elements in our ordinary lives to levels which reach the sublime or vice versa. Sadly I have to say that most photography rarely reaches the level of being considered art

Answer 5

Painting and photography are both two dimensional portraits. Painting and photography both employ creative techniques to compose subject matter in a appealing form; abstract or concrete. Not all photography or painting is art. It could be illustrative or informative. For example, one can paint a box or take its picture in a plain flat way. One can take the same box and by altering its lighting, color, size, background, and framing it can become art.

Answer 6

just like you have lines and shadows, and colors in oils, waters, sculptures, and the like you have these also in photography
Clive Bell in his classic essay "Art" states that only one thing can distinguish art from what is not art: "significant form." Bell wrote:

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. What is this quality? What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? What quality is common to Sta. Sophia and the windows at Chartres, Mexican sculpture, a Persian bowl, Chinese carpets, Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and the masterpieces of Poussin, Piero della Francesca, and Cezanne? Only one answer seems possible - significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions.

Answer 7

photography can be art if you are able to capture images that serve the purpose of a well done painting. There are certain aspects of life that are overlooked or are too small or too large to be seen from their most asthetic angle. True art in photography is to show us what we know exists but didn't know "looked like that".

Answer 8

The guy who invented the camera was named Art Smith, and that is the relationship between the two

Answer 9

beauty ,emotion and messages, how you can relate to the photograph can also relate to anyother medium of art. its art

Answer 10

It's creative, it uses light, shadow, color, just like art.