{"id":2580,"date":"2015-10-18T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2015-10-18T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:55:43","slug":"art-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/art-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since its invention, there has been a debate over whether photography is a &#8220;real&#8221; art form. I agree that some genres of photography can tend more toward record keeping (scientific, insurance, etc), and there is a strong craft{{1}} component to photography,\u00a0and\u00a0many photographers are quite insecure, but sometimes things come together and the final image is more then the sum of its parts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3243\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/alanklughammer.com_.ET_BW-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a very old image, in fact it was shot on film{{2}}, but it is still one of my favourites just because of the whimsy.<\/p>\n<p>PS. If you need to know, it is an old hand winch off of a barge or something. I found it at the side of a path and knew I had to shoot it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[[1]]My definition of Craft includes the mechanical\/chemical\/digital manipulations that must be done to create an image. The Art comes from the expression created from the craft.[[1]]<\/p>\n<p>[[2]]This is a scan of a &#8220;real&#8221; darkroom print with minimal retouching. I think the simple treatment adds to the image.[[2]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since its invention, there has been a debate over whether photography is a &#8220;real&#8221; art form. I agree that some genres of photography can tend more toward record keeping (scientific, insurance, etc), and there is a strong craft{{1}} component to photography,\u00a0and\u00a0many photographers are quite insecure, but sometimes things come together and the final image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17,7],"tags":[73,74,39,32],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-easy","category-photography","tag-bw","tag-black-and-white","tag-photograph","tag-tips-techniques-and-thoughts-on-photography","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}