Digital BW, The Print

" he was primarily a fine art photographer, not a documentarian. "


I know this is getting off the subject but here it goes anyway.

I have worked as a photojournalist for several years and have recently
finished up my MFA in a program that is strongly baste in conceptual
art; I am having a hard time understanding how you make a distinction
between someone that works in a documentary style and a fine art
photographer. It seems to me that these to should be considered one
and the same.


if Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photograph is not considered
fine art  I an mot sure what is, not to mention the work of
photographers like Cartier-Bresson, Eugene Smith and Robert Frank.
This list could go on forever. Most any contemporary art history book
you read today will list Nan Goldin as a "fine art photographer".

If you think that documentary style photography is not a bona fide art
form  you should take a longer look at this kind of work. There really
is some amazing work out there

Sorry about this early morning rant.

Steve