mise en scene

The greatest elements of cinema & photography combined. The best definitions are found in this book:

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin (2003). Film Art: An Introduction, 6th ed.. New York: McGraw-Hill.

I attended a lecture on ambiguity and multiple narrative structures and the changing nature of modern art films or some such title by David Bordwell a few years ago. It was great. I just wanted to brag here :) But it really was great.


Bordwell's blog.

fine art photography defined

Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created to fulfill the creative vision of the artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism and commercial photography. Photojournalism is to promote an editorial point of view. Commercial photography's main focus being to sell a product or service.

The final creative reason for a fine art photograph is the photograph itself. It is not a means to another end except perhaps to please those besides the photographer who beholds it.

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In the simplest terms, I would liken a fine art photograph to a fine art painting. But we (mostly) use a camera as a paintbrush. Which is hard to sell, because everyone has a camera and ideas and what separates us from everyone else? Essentially I guess it would have to be in the drive, and actions... we've made a conscious decision to do it. What I'm doing.