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The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower,

Aaron Scharf

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.
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Art Conclusion led Mean Photography Recording Simply
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.
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Art Balancing Difficult Imaginative Meaningful Mechanical Photography School Traditional
It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
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Artist Fact Inspiring Photography Place Provocative Today Work
In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students,
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Education Lacking Photography School Strength Technology
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media
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Art Aware Distinction Other Past Photography Visual
Neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.”
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Artist Ignore Partner Photography
Deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists.
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Artist Belief Creative Deprived Fourth Inculcated Richer Sent Training
The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower,
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Bringing Development Extent Factual Idea Large Light Material Stature
Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.”
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Art Artfulness Artist Cooking Hand Make Medium Painting Photography Talking
Questioning the idea of Art with a capital ‘A’, photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
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Art Assume Capital Idea Inevitably Photography Questioning Stature
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science.
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Art Balancing Difficult Imaginative Mechanical Photography Research. Meaningful School Serious Traditional

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