>>4471340Photography can be art but it doesn't have to be, it's weird that you insist on picking this hill to die on. The word "photography" predates the idea that it could be considered an art.
>>4471348That would explain the absurdity.
>>4471351That is a based quote, but while he was talking about photography in the context of art he wasn't really talking about what you're implying here (that merely taken photos aren't photos). He meant that *his* photos are made, not taken. Because he's an artist, not a spray and pray hack. Hence his other quote about the "machine gun approach to photography".
>>4471593I already proved that Daido Moriyama and Garry Winogrand's photography are easily accessible if you try. Winogrand's most celebrated photos are just a pale imitation of Walker Evans's least important work.
It's not that we can't do it, it's that we don't want to.
