Opposing Opinions About Landscape Photography

However, some people have opposite opinions about landscape photography by not consider it an art, and photographers are not artists. These opponents think that the landscape photography is closer to be a craft than an artwork because craftsmen are skilled and practiced in a certain job, so they think that photography is just a possible work for anyone who has a good expert and the right tools for it. Another reason is that the photos emotions that have been captured is not made by the photographer and some believe that the images don’t have any emotions to be captured in the first place. They say that photographers just have the time and the needed tools to get the job done. Photographers and artists in general always used the justification for their work that, ”art is subjective”. Craftsman is known as someone who created useful objects by

The artist always represents his own feeling in the artwork he does and can’t be used by others other than meditating the work but the landscape photography can only represent the object itself which it doesn’t have any feeling and it can be used by others, not like artworks (York, 2017). To consider something as an artwork, it should represent something and deliver the idea of it to the audience which landscaping doesn’t in many people opinions. Artistic work should represent something and landscape photography doesn’t (Ruqeyeh, 2015).