Response to Onotology of the Photographic Image

In The Ontology of the Photographic Image the author talk about photography and manual arts such as painting or drawing. He compares the two and makes it clear that a photograph is “perfect” in the way that it captures exactly a certain whereas a painting is just trying to reproduce what reality was. He also says that the art of photography is the new age and that it should kind of take over the traditional manual arts. I think that art is art no matter how it was made. What matters is the meaning behind it and the work put into it by the artist.

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