Casual Wall Art
The Star Works, Star, NC
I started a thought experiment and I have yet to emerge with a conclusive result. The question is about creating photographic art. Is the act of creating the photograph performance art? Or is the result of the act of creation the real art? Can the two be equal?
Can the creation of some great photographs be considered a performance of the photographer? Or, as Ansel Adams is often quoted, “the negative is the score, the performance is the print.” Do we get credit for creating the digital capture as art as well as the “performance” of the digitally edited file? Are these two separate creative activities, on two steps in the same process?
Is it performance art if someone else creates a video of your creating the photograph? Or would that be the videographer making a documentary of you creating art?
The more I think about this, the more I think that I should get back to making art and not thinking about it so much.
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