1) Photographers and their apologists have been trying to categorise photography under the heading of ‘fine art’.
2) Because it will not have a rarity value, it deserves to be considered not under that category.
3) The survival of a fine art object depends on the value placed on it by the wealthy.
4) Photographs have no property value because they are infinitely reproducible.
5) The photographer has decided that the particular is worthy of recording at that particular time.
6) The value of a photograph is relative to the degree that it effectively translates its inherent message.
7) The virtue of composition in a photographic image should not be overstressed.
8) The effect on the viewer of a photographer depends largely on their life experience.
9) The true content in a photographic image lies in what is not seen.
10) A fundamental difference between a photograph and a painting is that the former relies on what is not seen rather than the interpretation of what is seen.
11) The still photographer cannot demonstrate a time lapse in one particular image.
12) The successful photograph must contain an element of truth.
13) The photographer is saying that his image contains all the inherent features to lead the viewer to a successful judgement.
14) Why not judge an image on its face value.
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.John Berger: Essay 2.
1) It is that fine art is categorised by its property value and its property value by its rarity and since photographs are easily producible and reproducible and hence are of large quantity, they cannot be classified as fine art.
2) He believes that the common held assumption that property provides protection to society is illusory.
3) His argument concerning the relative creativity employed in a painting and a photograph may have had some justification in 1972 when the essay was written. Today there can be as much creativity involved in a photographic print as in a painted canvas. The difference lies in the tools used. A painting requires pigment and a stick with hairs attached to the end or a palette knife with which to apply it to the canvas. The photographic print is created by the tools such as the camera a computer screen and complex software.
4) His style is interspersed with vague references to underlying political biases which are of not much validity to his arguments. His language and reasoning are academic and complex.
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