Re: What is a photograph anyway?

[SteveS <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terms for photography have been blown open by the electronic photography. 
Photography is a plastic art, not a fine art.  A plastic art is wholey 
dependent on mankind's manufacture; but straight photography is a term 
coined to describe a photograph from camera to print without much 
manipulation but setting the light and a little heightening of dark areas, 
or burning of the highlights.

On this list came a great remark:  Photography is not an art form, but a 
medium.

How to presnt our work?  Describe the medium, write a small page on purpose 
and hang.

S.