photography as art
What is art? ... Artists and critics always go back to the basic criteria when considering something as an art. The debate continued when photography was invented. Charles Baudalaire in his essay “The Modern Public and Photography” and the anonymous author in “Is Photography a New Art?” both discuss the basic condition that sets art apart from every thing else. ... The anonymous author, although also required personal involvement, considered photography as an art medium. ... In our situation two artists presenting their works to art gallery where Baudalaire and the Anonymous author are judges deciding on weather to accept or reject them. ... Photos should not even be in the discussion with other art medium like painting. Condemning the popular belief that photos are the perfect art in it ability to produce the most accurate and beautiful pictures. ... Photography was meant to just reproduce the world and nothing more. If this medium were to integrate with other art then the traditional art will be lost and forgotten. For the photography that is considered the perfect imitation will draw all the attention from, let say, paintings that are less imitative.