>>3393776Personal taste
> art tierStuff that attempts to actually make an artistic impact. Obviously it can fail and not do that
- Fine art portraiture (tends towards the abstract or conceptual, or even just very beautifully planned portraiture e.g. Steve Mccurry)
- Travel street photography (serious stree work in exotic places, exotic people, or exotic situations)
- Abstract fine photography (only when done well)
- Abstract landscape photography
- Staged or planned “street” photography (e.g. Greg miller)
> not art but good and important- documentary photography
- Photojournalism not dominated by a political bias of the photographer
> aspiring art tierStuff that’s pretty or neat but really isn’t important work. Like the fast food of art. It’s unfortunately easy to fall here I find
- The better samples of normal Landscape photography
- high fashion
- most street photography
> not art or important but there’s nothing wrong with it- personal and loved one portraits
- every day carry
- snapshots of memories you don’t want to forget but which are unimportant to essentially everyone else
> consumable photography, i.e. photography as a tool or service- work or passport photos
- most newspaper photos (not really photojournalism)
- wedding photography
- porn
> destroys the integrity of photography- most fashion photography
- porn that tries to pretend it’s not porn
- advertisement photography
- propaganda
- surreal landscape photography
- weird collage shit
- lomography
- snapshots of obvious shit
- creepshots
- anything where you take pictures either as the backdrop or subject which feature a landmark you picked because it’s well photographed. E.g. the really overshot picture under the boardwalk in San Diego, some dude standing on a cliff in Yosemite or wherever. In short any pictures of the metaphorical “most photographed barn in America”
