Does the medium that your photograph is printed determine if it is fine art? Platinum fine art and inkjet not?

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mrm,

Nicely written. Thanks.

Answer 1

To coin a concept, you are mixing the medium with the message. "Art" or "Fine Art" has NOTHING to do with the medium on which it is portrayed---NOTHING!

Annie Leibowitz, for example, is considered to be a "Fine Art" photgrapher, and perhaps justifiably so. Her material could be printed on toilet paper and it would still be considered "Photographic Art" because of her ability to capture shadow and light, because of her ability to capture people in their essence, because of her ability to "speak" candidly through her pictures.

"Art" is nothing more or less that the intelligent, conscious and deliberate, literate expression of emotion. That artistic expression depends upon the depth of the vision (verbal, photographic, painted, written) and generally does not depend on what or where that vision is expressed (unless, of course, the medium is part and parcel of the message)!

So, if you have something you consider to be artful, and need to display it in some way that might not necessarily be considered "appropriate to the form", do it anyway you can!

A phrase unsaid, is a sentiment unheard. Get it?

Answer 2

Would you believe that the Jan. 2008 issue of Shutterbug Magazine is largely devoted to fine art photography? Is that excellent timing or what? Just visit shutterbug.com and read the article.

Answer 3

No it makes no difference. Exactly what MM said.

Answer 4

I don't think that is the determining factor...