>>4141128Stay mad that my thoughts resonate with those of other people from the /film/sphere and beyond, people who have escaped the delusional realm of street photography.
The pinnacle of still photography as an art is the one that adopts the methods of cinema, that is to say the staged, controlled, completely artist-envisioned domain of the tableaux vivant and still nature. Even the awe-inspiring landscape photography is less artful, because it takes less creation. But it is art nevertheless, as the artist carefully arranges the lighting even if by being there at a preset time when he knows the light will hit just right.