>>2979258>Why do I never see photography intentionally planned and framed?Because you're a scrub who doesn't know anything.
There is a long history of pictorial photography, starting (most obviously) with the Pictorialists around the twentieth century, like William Mortensen (pic related). Thanks to a vicious smear campaign by the landscape photographers of the 20's like Ansel Adams and his ilk, it fell out of fashion, though that doesn't mean it disappeared.
There is a strong pictorial sense that guides most portraiture. Any of one Annie Leibovitz's editorials look like a modern painting. There's also Joel Peter Witkin who beautifies the grotesque within a Baroque style. Yasumasa Morimura more explicity typifies the "painting style" with his series of self-portraits meant to pay homage to actual, real paintings.
