Aesthetics of photography
Title: Aesthetics of photography
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 5099 | Pages: 19 (approximately 235 words/page)
Aesthetics of photography
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 5099 | Pages: 19 (approximately 235 words/page)
Status of Photography Paul Weiss (1961), in his Book Nine Basic Arts, classifies the nine basic arts as architecture, sculpture, painting, musicry, story, poetry, music, theater, and dance. Photography is not highly regarded by Weiss. In the last chapter he says, "They (photographers) have little and sometimes even no appreciation of the aesthetic values of experience. And when they do have such appreciation it is rarely relevant to their purposes. One need not...be an artist
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