We’re exploring art from the perspective of other artistic disciplines to shed light on what it means to be a photographer and an artist. (You can read The Photographer as Artist – Introduction.) We’re doing this because photographers often seem to be expected to meet a “reality standard” that has not been imposed on other artists since the classic period of Greece two thousand years ago – “Did you use a filter?” “Are these colors real?” “Did you manipulate this photograph?”
There are three areas to explore – what I call the Tripod of Artistry – the three legs upon which all arts and artists stand. This article looks at the first of the three – Expressive Spectrum.
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