{"id":75,"date":"2004-05-08T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/wp-acr\/?p=75"},"modified":"2004-05-08T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T17:16:00","slug":"photography-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Photography as art"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a thread over at dpreview.com:<\/p>\n

\n> The reason – in fact, photography is the HARDEST of the arts,
\n> because it is completely subtractive. You start with everything
\n> and subtract until you are saying what you mean with your photos.<\/p>\n

Totally disagree. If I could paint, play an instrument or sing I wouldn’t take pictures. Photography is so popular because it’s much easier than other arts. Taking good pictures is surely harder, but that’ because you need something in your brain other than a good camera.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nI couldn’t agree more with the response given by the second poster. I myself wouldn’t take as many pictures if I could play an instrument well. Much more time would be devoted to music (strumming the guitar) than currently done.<\/p>\n

Sure, I would still take pictures (it is just for effect that the poster claims he wouldn’t take pictures … we all do!) but I would still find myself doing less photography and learning more songs to play.<\/p>\n

Then again, who’s to say that it will not be that way some day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a thread over at dpreview.com: > The reason – in fact, photography is the HARDEST of the arts, > because it is completely subtractive. You start with everything > and subtract until you are saying what you mean with your photos. Totally disagree. If I could paint, play an instrument or sing I wouldn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ncoG-1d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}