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Art photography is photography that is designed to express the creative vision of a particular artist. It is not necessarily documentary in nature, but sometimes, is purely expressionistic. Art photography can be representational. Art photography can be portraiture, landscapes, still life or nudes. This type of art photography tries to set a classic, sophisticated tone.

Art photography has gone through many phases during its history. At one time, art photography did its best to mimic paintings in their presentation, but art photography just didn’t find the same acceptance as paintings did. As time went by, more and more galleries began to display the fine art photography of the day. Art photography moved into larger and larger formats. Art photography went through more phases, but has generally been predominated by the natural landscape, the portrait and the nude figure study. People have begun to accept that even documentary photos can have artistic merit and galleries today display all sorts of art photography. Some of the most famous art photography images in the world were actually taken by photo journalists. Read the rest of this entry »