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>Why is photography the lowest form of art?
• Because it removes the artist from 90% of the artistic process.
• The content pre exists - the photographer merely records it.
• So often no impression of the photographer left in his work at all. His work is a mere observation with no embellishment to excite a new significance in the content.
The advent of photography also began the collapse of traditional painting and sculpture as ways of representing the past. They were simply no longer needed to record what had happened previously. It independently murdered romanticism and spurred the modern art movement between 1885 and 1980. Artists were suddenly without their key subject matter - the past, so they decided to experiment with light, colour and form as ways of communicating ideas with less craftsmanship required.
Fortunately we then slid into postmodernity where experimentation AND representation have started to become popular again.
