Is a photographer an artist?

[Thilo Schmid]

Brian,

"Photographer" and "Artist" are independend attributes. This is much like "Photographer" and "Professional". You are a Professional, if you make a living out of it. You are an Artist, if you do have "a higher concept" (IMO).

[Joe Lipka]

This is definitely art. A simple yes or no question generates three pages of responses.

The answer is "yes."

8-)

[Andre R. de Avillez]

Vapor trails. Art is the particle and I am the cloud chamber.
In a cloud chamber, we cannot "see" the particles - whatever they are called - mesons, pions, peons ... some are too short-lived for any hope of being seen ... but we have evidence that they are there by the effect they have in the surrounding atmosphere in the cloud chamber - they leave vapor trails.
So it is with me. I can't consciously "see" art - but I know that it exists, by its effect - the "vapor trails" left on my "being".

Sounds good.

So that good feeling we get when we shoot or print is a vapor trail? That would make sense. After all, the feeling itself doesn't exist (materialy). Its all chemical signals in the brain.

Right?

[Ed Sukach]

So that good feeling we get when we shoot or print is a vapor trail? That would make sense. After all, the feeling itself doesn't exist (materialy). Its all chemical signals in the brain.
Right?

Right.

[Cheryl Jacobs]

I dunno. I just take pichers.

[Donald Miller]

I dunno. I just take pichers.

Yup, me too.