Response #6

     “In 1893 an English writer complained that the new situation had created an army of photographers who run rampant over the globe, photographing objects of all sorts, sizes and shapes, under almost every condition, without ever pausing to ask themselves, is this or that artistic? There is no pause, why should there be?”  I thought this was an interesting observation because 110 years later we seem to be having a reoccurrence of this phenomenon today with how easily all of us can be an “artist” without pausing ourselves to consider what we’re doing.   I love the fact that photography belonged to no “school” or “aesthetic theory” but to photography itself.  Photographers had to build this “history” themselves starting from scratch. The article divides up photography into five categories of how one considered a photograph which is what we base our modern critique on: the thing Itself, the detail, the frame, the time, and the vantage point.