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Comment by Deviprasad on December 17, 2010 at 11:24pm

hi am devi prasad just born in photography plz do help me.................to grow

Comment by Banibrata Datta on September 20, 2010 at 9:29pm

Hi friends,
Photography is my hobby.
Photography is indeed a form of fine art since it depicts an event, a landscape or whatever has been captured not as it was but as it was seen by the photographer. It is the composition, not the subject, that makes a photo a masterpiece, elevating it to the level of fine art.
joining this group, I believe, will enrich me in the long run.

Comment by Ashok Kalsi on September 11, 2009 at 10:46pm

My this paintig shows ..... GOD REALIZATION

Comment by Gabriela Ene Rusu on June 6, 2009 at 1:47pm

Visit art gallery 7 stones

Comment by veenu brar on May 18, 2009 at 12:50pm

I feel so good and proud to be here........i hope and wish that i am able to contribute something to THE art of photography in future.

Comment by Dr. Vineet I. S. Khinda on May 17, 2009 at 8:36am

Photography as a Form of Fine Art

The medium of photography has turned a full circle now to be accepted finally and immutably as a form of fine art. As with most nascent inventions, it generated considerable curiosity and enthusiasm in the nineteenth century over the fact that light, in combination with mechanical and chemical materials, produced, in a very short time, images more convincing in their reality than paintings. This inevitably led to controversy among critics. It was widely acknowledged that images so literal and so dependent upon a mechanical process could not be termed art. As a result, photographers began to tow the painter’s impressionistic line, thus lowering the medium to second class status for some years.

The revival occurred at the turn of the century, especially in the United States, when photographers, committed to the belief that they had indeed found a new art-form, shed the soft focus, impressionistic approach for a more direct, incisive one. It was in this transformation that the medium began to establish its independent identity as an art-form. The movement of ‘straight photography’ grew with the twentieth century, led by pioneers like Alfred Stieglitz and Charles Scheeler and bred in its wake great photographers like Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Ansal Adams who, in the thirties and forties, produced images that unquestionably elevated photography to the realm of fine art. It was during this period that museums began exhibiting these works and featuring them in their permanent collections which, in turn in the sixties and seventies led to the medium finding its way on to the living room walls hanging side by side with paintings.

In the last two decades, as the best in classical painting has traversed well beyond the reach of individual collectors, they have turned to the best in photography. In fact the market for art photography has been going through such an extraordinary boom in the last few years that works of some masters have already crept out of the range of the average collector.

Photography as a form of fine art has truly arrived.

Adapted from ‘PHOTO-ARTISTRY…. SESQUICENTENNIAL OF AN ART-FORM’ - a publication of Centre for Photography as an Art Form (CPA), Mumbai, India.